Finding God in the Margins: The Book of Ruth (Transformative Word)

The ancient book of Ruth speaks into today's world with astonishing relevance.

In four short episodes, readers encounter refugees, undocumented immigrants, poverty, hunger, women's rights, male power and privilege, discrimination, and injustice.

In Finding God in the Margins, Carolyn Custis James reveals how the book of Ruth is about God, the questions that surface when life falls apart, and how God reaches into the margins and chooses two totally marginalized women who, in the eyes of the patriarchal culture, are zeros.

Against the backdrop of disturbing issues in today's world, this bracing narrative puts on display a radical gospel way of living together as human beings that shouts the Kingdom of God, foreshadows Jesus' gospel, and raises the bar for men and women, then and now.

• The Gospel of Ruth: Loving God Enough to Break the Rules
• Lost Women of the Bible: The Women We Thought We Knew
• Half the Church: Recapturing God's Global Vision for Women
• Malestrom: Manhood Swept into the Currents of a Changing World
• In the Name of Jesus: Reflections on Christian Leadership
• When Life and Beliefs Collide
• Vindicating the Vixens: Revisiting Sexualized, Vilified, and Marginalized Women of the Bible
• Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again (series_title)
• Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women
• I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness