I put three question marks in the title because very few people off-hand know anything about this little four-chapter story buried deep in the Old Testament. Ruth is a kind of love story set in the land of Judah “in the time of the Judges”. A famine arose in the land and so Naomi and…

Recently I wrote a piece about how the secular developments in the Roman Empire, viz a viz the reign of Constantine, opened the way for the development of the Christian faith as we have come to know it. Now I would like to discuss yet another time when this dynamic played a crucial role, namely…