Finding God in the Margins: The Book of Ruth -- Carolyn Custis James, Paperback

2018 Top Shelf Book Cover Award Winner

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.

Author: Carolyn Custis James
Publisher: Lexham Press
Published: 02/24/2018
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781683590804

About the Author

Carolyn Custis James is an award-winning author and international speaker. She blogs at www.carolyncustisjames.com, as a Leading Voice at MissioAlliance, and at Huffington Post, is an adjunct faculty member at Biblical Theological Seminary, and a consulting editor for for Zondervan's Exegetical Commentary Series on the New Testament. Her books include Malestrom-Manhood Swept into the Currents of a Changing World, Half the Church-Recapturing God's Global Vision for Women, and The Gospel of Ruth-Loving God Enough to Break the Rules. She speaks regularly at church conferences, colleges and other Christian organizations and is a visiting lecturer at theological seminaries. In 2013, Christianity Today named her one of the 50 evangelical women to watch.