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Providence in the Making
Chapter 2 centres on a pivotal encounter that highlights how divine providence operates in tandem with human agency, courage, and community responsibility. Scott considers how Ruth and Boaz’s conversation encourages us to face our common fears and reimagine what faith actually looks like in the world.
When Grief Pushes People Away
What happens when grief starts to sound like kindness? “Look after yourself. I can’t do anything for you. You’d be better off without me.” In Ruth 1, Naomi says all of it, and none of it is malicious. But it may be pushing her toward an even more lonely and precarious place.
Grief That Takes Your Name
In this first message of a series on Ruth, we explore why Naomi, not Ruth, is the central character of the story, why many scholars think this woman-centred book may have been written as a quiet protest against the exclusion of foreigners in the time of Ezra and Nehemiah (Nehemiah 13), and how the meaning of the names in the story reveals what is really going on.