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Rob Baigent-Ritchie's avatar

Tena koe e hoa,

It is good to read a reminder of who Jesus stood with. It only takes a few chapters at the beginning of Mark to see how deliberate Jesus agitated for. Yes agitated; and those who were operating the levers of power locally and in the Empire became very agitated too. Our role is to follow that path.

Kia pai ou mahi katoa!

Rob Baigent-Ritchie

New Plymouth

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Donna B's avatar

We are not made for resignation. Passive acceptance is not the code written into our spirit. If that were true, as a species, we would have vanished long ago. Instead, for millennia, we have shaken off the temptation to simply accept reality and the demand that we bend the knee, and we have stood up to struggle against the odds, to change the situation, and to find an answer and a healing. Those deep drives are the energy we call hope. Those active forces are what determine our future. We are not made for resignation, but for freedom.”

—Steven Charleston, Ladder To The Light: An Indigenous Elder’s meditations on Hope and Courage (Broadleaf Books, 2021), p. 17

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