After the Anglican Church of Canada’s 2009 Lenten reflection debacle where it claimed Jesus was a racist, it has decided to let the PWRDF do Lent for 2011.
The PWRDF mentions CIDA funding, Indigenous language recovery, KAIROS, AIDS, HIV, social justice, an Ecumenical Women’s Network, poverty and injustice, Cuba, maternal health care, Girl Power and Natural Disasters – of which the Anglican Church of Canada is a leading example.
The only lack is a mention of Jesus – after all, what’s Lent got to do with him?
Calling a woman a dog because her ethnicity is different than yours is kind of a racist act.
My take on the passage is that we have to prove our Faith, and sometimes that means being challenged in a very serious manner. Additionally, that “even the dogs are allowed he scraps that fall from the Master’s table” tells us very clearly that even though many of us are Gentiles, we are all going to be fed. It should be noticed that the woman was fed in the manner that she needed.
Read the passage properly! Especially the woman’s reply, for which Jesus praised her. Remember, His first priority was the Jewish people, who eventually rejected Him. At the same time, those non-Jews (Samaritans etc) who believed in Him were given the right to become children of God (John 1:11-12)