IFS Book of Ruth Course: A Story of Loyalty, Loss, and Redemption
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A free course inside the Everything IFS Academy
The Book of Ruth is often remembered as a gentle love story, but it begins somewhere far less romantic: famine, displacement, and loss. Before there is devotion or redemption, there is scarcity people forced to leave home because the land that once sustained them no longer can.
This course invites a slower, more honest reading of Ruth, one that takes seriously the grief, vulnerability, and survival woven into the story. Set in the dark and unstable period of the judges, Ruth unfolds as a quiet narrative of faithfulness formed not through triumph, but through ordinary courage, risky loyalty, and daily endurance.
This free course explores the Book of Ruth through Scripture, historical context, and a lens thoughtfully informed by Internal Family Systems (IFS). It is not therapy, and it does not replace biblical theology or tradition. It is designed for readers who want to engage Ruth as sacred text without sentimentalizing suffering or rushing past the cost of faithfulness.
What This Course Offers
This course invites you to encounter Ruth as a story about how redemption takes shape slowly, through human choices made under pressure, grief, and uncertainty.
Inside the course, you’ll explore:
Famine, migration, and survival as sacred context
Loyalty forged through loss rather than certainty
Courage expressed in ordinary, embodied risk
Redemption emerging through relationship, not rescue
Legacy formed through faithfulness in obscurity
Throughout the course, insights from Internal Family Systems (IFS) help illuminate how these ancient stories still echo in the inner world how fear responds to scarcity, how loyalty takes form, how grief reshapes identity, and how trust grows through connection.
This approach does not replace Scripture. It does not turn Scripture into psychology. It offers another lens for noticing what is already there.
Course Outline
Lesson 1: When Famine Forces a Move Lesson 2: Ruth’s Bold Loyalty Lesson 3: Arriving in Bethlehem Empty Lesson 4: Ruth Meets Boaz in the Field Lesson 5: Redemption at the Threshing Floor Lesson 6: The Kinsman Redeemer Lesson 7: From Widow to Legacy
How This Course Is Different
You won’t find:
A sentimentalized version of suffering
Characters reduced to moral lessons
Redemption treated as quick or effortless
You will find:
Scripture read within its historical and social reality
Space for grief, risk, and constraint to be named
A slow unfolding of redemption shaped by human faithfulness
Each lesson includes historical notes and optional reflective elements, emphasizing patient, thoughtful engagement with the text and its deeper movements.
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