For years I didn't know what to think of this story. It looked like Jesus was first ignoring, and then insulting, a poor, desperate woman-- for no other reason than that she was a Gentile. It looked like she obtained healing for her daughter only after submitting to humiliation by agreeing that she and her people were little more than "dogs." If Jesus is really the compassionate Savior of all mankind, how could He be so racist and cruel?
Read Kristen's astonishing exposition of what Jesus was actually teaching the Syrophoenician woman, and his disciples, here: Even the Dogs Eat the Crumbs
