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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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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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Eating Scripture: Even the Dogs Get Scraps
Today I’m kicking off a weekly video series called “Eating Scripture” in which I attempt to break apart this week’s gospel in about 4 minutes or fewer to pass out the juiciest and crunchiest bits for each of us to chew on over the weekend. This week, we dive into the text (Mark 7:24-37) which contains a…