Loss and Loyalty

Naomi has lost everything—her husband, her sons, her home country. She tells her daughters-in-law to go back to their own people, their own gods, their own chances at a future. It's a reasonable thing to say. And Ruth refuses. "Found Family" is our 2026 Pride series, and it begins here: in the Book of Ruth, with a story about what it looks like to choose someone when you have every excuse not to. Ruth's loyalty to Naomi isn't obligated. It isn't convenient. It's the kind of love that says where you go, I will go—and means it. Join us June 7 as we begin a five-week journey through the stories of Ruth and Esther: two women who built family from the wreckage of what was lost, and found that chosen bonds can be just as binding—and just as holy—as the ones we're born into.