It seems like a simple tale, but like much of the Bible, it’s full of allusions and references to past and future.

Layers upon layers. Wheels within wheels. The book of Ruth seems a simple tale. During a famine in Israel, a husband, a wife and their two sons flee to neighboring Moab. The sons marry Moabite women.

By “slowly” I mean we’ve been engaged in this study for a year and just made it to Ruth, which is only the eighth of the Old Testament’s 39 books. If you haven’t read Ruth recently ...

I have a music stand and a book that I called the Book of Ruth, and he's way across the room in a very sanitized piano. And so that's how we started. It just grew from that. And some theater saw ...