He 'made room for the terrible and the beautiful.' How Fred Buechner redefined the art of not preaching
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When Fred Buechner died last week at 96, admirers paid tribute to one of the most innovative pastors of the 20th century. Two attributes make his voice more relevant than ever.
Rutledge was a 21-year-old college senior when his father was stricken with pancreatic cancer. His dad, Paul, was his hero. Paul was an anthropologist who gave his son bear hugs while telling him "I love you," teared up when he watched stories of suffering on the evening news and still took romantic walks with Rutledge's mother, Suzanne. Within two months of that diagnosis, his father had died at 47.
Friends tried to console Rutledge with platitudes like, "your father is in a better place," and "everything happens for a reason," but those words only deepened his grief and anger.
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