Growing up with a biblical name can be a bother. I often heard people say things like, “try to be more like Ruth in the bible,” because they were trying to tell me to be less outspoken and more complacent. When I was about 13, and was allowed, for the first time, into the teen class in Sunday school, the minister told us about how Christians were thrown to the lions, “simply for being Christians,” he said. Even at the age of 13, I suspected there was more to the stories than what we were