Naomi: From Lament to Praise (Ruth 1:20-21 & 4:14-16)

The book of Ruth is a beautiful and moving story of a family living ‘in the days when the judges judged’ (Ruth 1:1). It forms a sharp contrast, and provides significant relief, from the stomach-churning accounts which make up the latter part of the book of Judges. The grand national scale of the Judges accounts […]