Faith
The search for meaning, purpose, and relationship. Our need for love compels us to seek it out, and when we find it, share it.
-
Between the Canaanite woman and the messianic proclamation is more healing, confrontation, and the heart of the matter.
-
In one of the most controversial passages in the Bible, Jesus insults a woman asking for help. How we see this matters.
-
Jesus is challenged by the Canaanite woman to see her daughter’s humanity—to learn something from her.
-
We often think about borders as a line, dividing two places, but our borders are places, too. And they are inhabited.
-
Before Jesus talks about what goes in is not what defiles, he is confronted about his disciples not bothering to wash their hands.
-
For a story that includes both Jesus and Peter walking on water, the fact that it isn’t more familiar is confounding.