Like all these stories that are not in the Jesus storybook Bible for kids are in, they're

all come together in the Book of Ruth.

And what happens is they all get redeemed, which is to say Ruth and Boaz have restored

a pattern of men and women relating honorably to one another that had been broken generations ago

and has been broken up to that moment.

Welcome to the Good Faith podcast on your host, Curtis Chang.

And the Good Faith podcast is where friends who follow Jesus help each other make sense of the world.

And in making sense of the world, a key art form for Christians is applying scripture to current realities.

Now, I say art form because there is no scientific formula for taking a text that is thousands of years old and drawing an immediate, direct, clear connection to the current day. It is an art form that takes wisdom and discernment, and often the help of thoughtful leaders. And that's why I wanted to talk to

a friend who is just such a thoughtful leader for myself and for many people, Andy Crouch. Andy Crouch is a recurring contributor to good faith,

and he's also a partner in theology and culture,

figuring out how those two things connect to one another for Praxis,

which is an important network of social entrepreneurs who are doing just that,

trying to take scripture and live it out in the

enterprises that they build.

And as I've heard Andy teach in recent years, I've sensed that he is gravitating towards a

particular book in scripture.

And so I really wanted to hear from him.

Andy, welcome back to good faith.

Thank you, Curtis. It is always fun. Did he get to talk? All right. Well, let's cut to the chase.

What is this book of scripture that you've been gravitating around? Well, let me give you just a

tiny bit of background, which is at practice we talk about the

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