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43 illustrations across all 4 chapters
We read Ruth 2:1-23 as a profound example of divine providence manifesting through ordinary human interactions. Boaz's kindness to Ruth prefigures Christ’s own generous love, emphasizing the Catholic understanding of grace working through human agency. The passage highlights the virtue of charity, w
We read Ruth 4:1-12 as a powerful narrative of redemption that reflects God's ongoing work of deliverance and restoration. In this passage, we see Boaz, as a kinsman-redeemer, embodying the steadfast love and justice of God—a God who acts in history to restore dignity and community to those who are
Yet this humble labouring man, armed only with an ox-goad, slew them all.
Removing thirty years for Joshua, thirty for Samuel, and forty for Saul's reign (Acts 13:21)—totaling 100 years—leaves 140–160 years for the events recorded in Judges.
Joshua, the great military commander who had led the tribes to countless victories, now felt mortality approaching.
His death illustrates three severe truths about human mortality.
In the higher regions dwell principles of innocence, hope, love, justice, trust, kindness, purity, and tenderness—the kingdom of heaven itself.
In 1947, Margaret Hutchins sat on a wooden bench outside the county courthouse in Boone, North Carolina, signing papers that would finalize the sale of...
Margaret Ellison sat in a plastic chair at Riverside Community Hospital in Chattanooga, Tennessee, convinced she had outlived every good thing. Her husband, Carl, had...
We read the story of Ruth and Naomi in Ruth 3:1-18 as a testament to God's liberating work through the agency of marginalized individuals. Ruth, a Moabite, and Naomi, a widow, embody the resilience and strategic wisdom of those whom society often overlooks. In this passage, we see God working throug
On August 5, 1942, German soldiers arrived at the Jewish orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto with orders to deport its nearly two hundred children. Janusz...
In 1943, a young Polish nurse named Irena Sendler could have stayed safe. She had papers. She had connections. She could have kept her head...
On June 12, 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer stepped off a ship in New York Harbor, having accepted a teaching position at Union Theological Seminary arranged by...
In 1943, a young Dutch woman named Corrie ten Boom watched her elderly father, Caspar, open their front door in Haarlem to a terrified Jewish...
In 1943, a young Dutch woman named Corrie ten Boom watched her elderly father, Casper, open their door to a Jewish neighbor trembling on the...
In the poignant film *A Beautiful Mind*, we journey alongside John Nash, a brilliant mathematician whose mind becomes a battleground of schizophrenia. As John spirals into a world tangled with delusions and paranoia, his loving wife, Alicia, stands unwaveringly by...
In 1956, a twenty-three-year-old Hungarian cellist named Katalin Varga walked across the Austrian border carrying nothing but her instrument case and a photograph of her...
After some great perplexity, some dark hour, or some mysterious visitation, when there seemed to be no clue to an event and not a spark of illumination about it, it is a blessed relief to mind and soul when we...
Teaching on Community and Fellowship from Benedict of Nursia: Benedict on Stability: Staying Put
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