I do not think the Church’s work of binding and loosing is about clutching and throwing away, either people or empires. I think it is the careful work of unlearning, untethering ourselves and our world from empires and reconnecting our hearts, strand by single strand, with the heart of God.

The Canaanite woman shows us what holy audacity looks like. It isn't arrogance, and it isn't just insisting on getting your way. It's the audacity to believe that God's mercy is bigger than the boundaries we've drawn around it. It's the courage to keep asking, and to refuse to believe that anyone is beyond the reach of God's love.