Crumbs for....

Racial tensions have been in the news a lot lately. The horror of Charlottesville is still very fresh in all of our minds even though we watch from the other side of the border. Words spoken, and left unspoken, fill our newscasts and our social media feeds. The words and actions of white supremacists and neo-Nazis show us that hate and sin are alive and well in our world.

The Lectionary, this week, brings us to the story of the Canaanite woman and her interaction with Jesus. Its a puzzling piece, because, initially anyway,  Jesus seems to support sense of superiority the Israelites held over the Canaanites, seems to join in with the culture of name calling, and division. Yet, by the end of the interaction, Jesus commends the woman for her "great" faith. Nowhere else in Matthew's gospel is this level of praise offered by Jesus. I wonder what Twitter would have had to say about that. 

This Sunday, we'll spend some time wondering about this narrative, wondering how it relates to our walk as Jesus disciples in a world that is very different, and yet, so much the same.