Sermon for Sunday, August 16, 2026

August 16, 2026 By Kristin Berkey-Abbott Matthew 15:[10-20] 21-28 We have met the Canaanite woman before, and not just 3 years ago when we were last at this place in the lectionary cycle. In Mark, she’s called a Syrophoenician woman. Both of these descriptors—Canaanite and Syrophoenician--are markers that would have been more clear to first century ears than to our own. She is an outsider in all…