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In Finding God in the Margins, we encounter refugees, undocumented immigrants, poverty, hunger, women’s rights, male power and privilege, discrimination, and injustice. Carolyn Custis James reveals how the book of Ruth is about God and how he reaches into the margins and chooses two totally marginalized women who are zeros in the eyes of the patriarchal culture. This bracing narrative puts on...

. Every time we open the Bible we need to remind ourselves of this. As Westerners we study the Bible at a huge disadvantage, for our culture is as far removed from the world of the Bible as we can get in today’s world. Without significant outside help, we will distort, diminish, or miss entirely the message of the story. Fortunately, in today’s multicultural, globalized world, we are actually rubbing shoulders with people who come from patriarchal
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