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Fleming Rutledge

Fleming Rutledge is the author of The Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of Jesus Christ (Eerdmans).

Christ offered sponge at crucifixion
Critical Essay

Living water isn’t just a metaphor

On the cross, Jesus needed actual water. No one gave him any.
Sun hidden behind clouds
Critical Essay

Divine absence and the light inaccessible

God isn't just hidden. God hides. Why?
In the Lectionary

For grown-ups: Isaiah 52:7-10; John 1:1-14

The first three Sundays of Advent speak of an adult Christ and the future reign of God, not of an infant born in the past....
In the Lectionary

God’s entrance: 2 Samuel 7:1-16; Luke 1:26-38

The angel Gabriel bursts into the life of an ordinary young woman without permission, terrifying her.
In the Lectionary

The two faces of Advent: John 1:6-8, 19-28

John stands on the frontier as the ages collide, destined to bear the impact.
In the Lectionary

Cover-ups: Psalm 85

Blaise Pascal evokes a sense of existential dread in this famous line: "The eternal silence of those infinite spaces terrifies me." In his poem For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio, W....
In the Lectionary

Royalty stoops: Matthew 25:31-46

Not long before the onset of the cancer that finally killed him, King Hussein of Jordan undertook a small mission....

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