Posts by Linda Martindale

As we enter the 21st Sunday after Pentecost, we see in this week’s reading how Jesus affects the life of Zacchaeus, a wealthy tax collector whom the community despises. We also see how this encounter impacts that same community in tangible ways.

In the early days of my faith journey, I heard songs about Zacchaeus and his encounter with Jesus. We sang, “Zacchaeus was a very little man, and a very little man was he; he climbed up into a sycamore tree for the saviour he wanted to see. But when the saviour passed that way, he looked into the tree – and said, ‘Now Zacchaeus, you come down, coz I’m coming to your house for tea.’”