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Radiate Love
The grace Jesus offers in these healing stories is a grace of transformation, of change, of the true hope of learning to be new.
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Jesus changes his mind
In these two encounters with the Syrophoenician woman and the deaf man, seeing Jesus change his mind allows us to do the same.
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When he breaks the rules—for Proper 18B
When Jesus heals the Syrophoenician woman, he is breaking a rule he never intended to break. What are those rules for us?
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Between Proper 17 + 18 (Year B)
Part of the challenge for preparing for this week’s gospel is that we’ll forget about last week’s. Let’s read them as going together.
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A Promise of Wholeness
For SundayFifteenth Sunday after Pentecost Collect Grant us, O Lord, to trust in you with all our hearts; for, as you always resist the proud who confide in their own strength, so you never forsake those who make their boast of your mercy; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and…
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Trading Spaces
What Jesus’s interaction with the Syrophoenician woman in Mark 7:24-37 tells us about what God is really up to with Jesus the Christ. How the gospel of Mark flips the Christ Project on Jesus. Proper 18B | Mark 7:24-37 It was only a chapter ago in the gospel we call Mark when Jesus was trying…
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More than dogs
Given our country’s spotty record on race relations, on exploitation of others, it is far too easy for us to ignore our place in the mess. a call to reconciliation Proper 18B | Mark 7:24-37 Feeding the dog We don’t know the original question the woman asks Jesus. Only its subject and that she begs.…
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Of the soil
a Homily for Proper 18B Text: Mark 7:24-37 Is Jesus a Racist? The central figures of this pericope are Jesus and the Psyrophenician Woman. This woman comes to Jesus to heal her daughter who is possessed by a demon. The last time Jesus was over here, he dispelled a host of demons. Our lectionary skipped…