urgan Möltmann said: “Christianity…is hope, forward looking and forward moving and therefore also revolutionary and transforming of the present.”The Canaanite woman mentioned in this story was seen as a sinner, part of an unclean ‘other’ group, but she refused to be silenced. She knew who she was and understood more deeply than the disciples, the mission of the Messiah. Where and in what ways can we be true to and persist in the transformative hope of the upside-down-all-included Kingdom of God?