Franciscan University Presents: “Love Basics From Scripture” With Guest Dr. John Bergsma, the author of Love Basics for Catholics Ruth: A “Chick Flick” with a Matrimonial Message Dr. John Bergsma If books of the Bible were Hollywood movies, Ruth would be a...
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Franciscan University Presents: “Love Basics From Scripture” With Guest Dr. John Bergsma, the author of Love Basics for Catholics Ruth: A “Chick Flick” with a Matrimonial Message Dr. John Bergsma If books of the Bible were Hollywood movies, Ruth would be a romantic comedy. I don’t know if you are familiar with this film genre, but I am. I watch a lot of them because my wife likes them. If I had to cast the leads, I’d have Sandra Bullock play Ruth (with that shy sweet smile of hers, ala “While You Were Sleeping”) and for Boaz, I’d need someone older, yet physically robust, and noble: perhaps Liam Neeson (Jean Valjean, “Les Miserables”) or Alan Rickman (Colonel Brandon, “Sense and Sensibility”). The opening scene of Ruth is one of real crisis. A famine forces a Bethelehemite to flee to Moab. (For Americans, that would be like an Iowan emigrating to Libya to find food.) The man and his sons die in Moab, leaving their wives as widows. Noami, the matriarch, heads back to Bethlehem, but urge
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