Chapter 19 of Luke's Gospel tells the story of Jesus's meeting with Zacchaeus, the tax collector who had climbed a sycamore tree in Jericho to overcome his shortness and get a better look at Jesus. What Luke doesn't tell the reader is why Zacchaeus sought redemption and a meeting with Jesus. In Zacchaeus, the Crippled Tree-climber, a story of conflict, tyranny and love in the time of Jesus, Edward Lagnado builds a compelling, involving narrative around the bare frame of Luke's Gospel. We meet Zacchaeus himself and see the world through his eyes, the eyes of an outcast, who belongs neither to...
Chapter 19 of Luke's Gospel tells the story of Jesus's meeting with Zacchaeus, the tax collector who had climbed a sycamore tree in Jericho to overcom...
'The twenty-first-century world is in the grip of a feverish malaise prompted by conflict between extremism and nihilism, between gluttony and want, between vacuity and substance. Flames abound unabated in cultural dissensions and strife, but all are bereft of both honour and glory. It is a sad indictment that the very core and essence that raise man above the animal world are only discernible in the marginalised of human society, in the compassion and spirituality of the poor, in the tears of the afflicted and the oppressed. Somehow their cries find glory in another flame. The flame of hope...
'The twenty-first-century world is in the grip of a feverish malaise prompted by conflict between extremism and nihilism, between gluttony and want, b...
