Haerenga Tuatoru - Part 4 - Rangiaowhia

E aku nui, e aku rahi, e aku rau rangatira mā, tēnā rā tatou katoa, and welcome to the forth episode of season three of Ngā Here.

For the first couple of seasons of Ngā Here, we went to a secluded hut on Te Pataka o Rakaihautū -  Banks Peninsular so that we could be surrounded by ngahere to talk about Ngā Here - the many connections and the many questions that so many of us have. 

Questions like what does the bible have to say about the state of our planet? How do we live faithfully in a nation that is working through the impacts of colonisation? How is the Church called to respond to our aching world?

As we talked we realised that our land, our whenua has more stories to tell us, and that we would need to go on a haerenga to pay attention to those stories and hear what the whenua is trying to say to us.

So this season we decided to travel from Te Puke to Taranaki, to listen to the land, to hear it’s groans, and to see what the Spirit might be saying to us through the painful history of our whenua.

In this episode, we are joined by Tereora Crane - Senior Education Specialist at The National Library - to discuss the Waikato wars and the sacking of Rangiaowhia.

Ngā Here - The Many Connections is a project funded by The Wilberforce Foundation in partnership with A Rocha Aotearoa. Produced by me, James Beck, with creative direction from the Revered Spanky Moore and production assistance from Andrew Shepherd.  Our music was created by the wonderful Chris Williams - check him out on Spotify. Follow Ngā Here on social media to stay in the loop, or give us a review and a rating on Apple podcasts so other people can find this kaupapa too.