This week BibleWorm reads Ruth 1:1-17 and 4:13-17 – just the opening and closing of a book that turns all kinds of social norms on their head. That famous line “your people shall be my people, and your God shall be my God” – the one that so many people use today in weddings, is not from a wedding at all – but from the mouth of Ruth, who is refusing Naomi’s plea to go find herself a husband, and committing herself instead to her deceased husband’s mother. This text asks us – what, really, is family? And what is peoplehood? Following a theme we are seeing a lot this season, Ruth decides to just care for the life in front of her, whatever that may mean for her future. And this act, as it trickles through the generations, means very good things.
Episode 311 Let Justice Roll Down (Amos 1:1-2 and 5:14-24)
Episode 310 Elijah and the Still Small Voice of God (1 Kings 19:1-18)
Episode 309 Solomon‘s Temple (1 Kings 5:1-5 and 8:1-13)
Episode 308 The Anointing of David (1 Samuel 16:1-13 and Psalm 51:10-14)
Episode 307 The Call of Samuel (1 Samuel 3:1-21)
Episode 306 Manna in the Wilderness (Exodus 16:1-18)
Episode 305 The Call of Moses (Exodus 2:23-25; 3:1-15; 4:1-10)
Episode 304 SPECIAL EPISODE Brent Strawn: Lies My Preacher Told Me
Episode 303 The Blessing of Jacob (Genesis 27:1-23 and 28:10-17)
Episode 302 The Binding of Isaac (Genesis 21:1-3 and 22:1-14)
Episode 301 God's Generous Creativity (Genesis 1:1-2:4a)
Episode 250 (Replay) Resisting Ethnic Nationalism (Esther 3:1-11 and 7:1-10)
Episode 249 (Replay) Resisting the Patriarchy (Esther 1:1-22)
Episode 248 (Replay) Reading Ruth Against the Grain (Ruth 1:14-18 and 3:1-15)
Episode 247 (Replay) Making Ancient Israel Great Again (Ruth 2:1-20 and 4:9-17)
Episode 246 (Replay) Solidarity and Allegory (Song of Songs 5:2-9 and 8:5-10)
Episode 245 (Replay) The Joy of Sex (Song of Songs1:12-2:6 and 7:1-13)
Episode 244 (Replay) Trauma Has Many Voices (Lamentations 3 and 5)
Episode 243 (Replay) Trauma and Protest (Lamentations 1:18-22 and 2:10-22)
Episode 242 (Replay) For Everything There is a Time (Ecclesiastes 1:4-11 and 3:1-11)
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