The following is essentially the sermon I gave at St George’s Anglican Church, Tauranga Moana, 5 November 2017 We have just had the observance of the Allhallowtide triduum from 31st of October to the 2nd of November. Those three days are individually known as All Hallows Eve, All Saints Day and All Souls Day. Our… Read More All Saints, All Souls or All Parihaka? Connecting Allhallowtide to Aotearoa
Duncan Garner got a rough run of it on Twitter over the weekend after the publication of his 7 October column about a visit to Kmart that prompted some thoughts about immigration. Accusations of racism have led him to quit Twitter, to highlight some of the nastiness on his Facebook page, and to angrily refute… Read More Subject to Garner’s Gaze: racial determinism out here on the edge
One of the more wonderful things to occur in the last 15 years has been the rise and integration of Matariki into our collective indigenous and now national consciousness. Today I was at the base of Mauao in Tauranga Moana with my daughter’s kura kaupapa Māori class listening to child-oriented presentations on Māori knowledge of… Read More Finding a Tākitimu star path: navigating the generic Matariki festival
On the 8th of November 1918, the Tuawaru o Noema, Tahupotiki Wiremu Ratana, a local farmer, was on the porch of his house on the exposed and lonely plains south of Whanganui when a cloud came from the coast: Wiremu noticed a cloud formation hovering and moving above the sea heading in his direction. It… Read More Tuawaru o Noema: celebrating the founding of the Ratana faith
Pāpaki tū ana ngā tai ki Mauao I whakanukunukuhia, I whakanekenekehia, I whiua reretia e Hotu a Wahinerua ki te wai, ki tai wīwī, ki tai wāwā, Ki te whai ao, ki te ao mārama, Tīhei mauriora. This is a very well known tauparapara and waiata ā ringa in Tauranga Moana. It translates as following: The waves… Read More Pāpaki tū ana: ruāhine as female spiritual experts & our misreading of Wahinerua & the Tainui grounding
Article originally written for the Salvation Army’s War Cry Issue 6606 Christmas 2014. On 12 April 1799, the Society for Missions to Africa and the East (later renamed the Church Missionary Society) was founded at a meeting of the Eclectic Society, supported by members of the Clapham Sect, including Henry Thornton, Thomas Babington and William… Read More Ruatara’s Mission: 200 years since the first Christian service in Aotearoa through Māori eyes
The Diné tell of a little people who occupied the floors of canyons before them. As with all myth and story, the pieces are complicated, however there is a plethora of archaeological evidence onto which these stories read. For example, macau feathers have been found in desert areas, and the Diné explain that these little… Read More Home in Canyon de Chelly: Te Aitanga a Pōkai Whenua 5
We visited two First Nations’peoples, and I had initially thought to write about them together. However, the Navajo and the Hopi are so different from each other that it didn’t make sense.On our first full day we visited Oraibi (it is said Orayvia) village on the Second Meza (a meza is a plateau) in the Hopi… Read More The Hopi of Oraibi & tino rangatiratanga: Te Aitanga a Pōkai Whenua 3
I did not take this photo. I’m not much of a photographer, and I most certainly could not imagine capturing the Grand Canyon in a way that came close to expressing what it is like to be there. We left Las Vegas at 12.15am in the hope of getting to the Canyon before the sunrise.… Read More The overwhelming brobdingnagian Grand Canyon: Te Aitanga a Pōkai Whenua 2
I have not been in a kapa since before my eldest child was born and I have never been in a serious kapa. In part that is a matter of the time that is available with young children, but it is also because I am not particularly good. I seem to struggle to retain words, I get… Read More E ara e hika e! The Battle of Gate Pā and the battle to remember
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