With indigenous leaders across the world calling on the Crown to apologize and atone for the sins of their ancestors, there are those who ask what business the church has standing alongside the Crown?
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.
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
Exactly well said. I have lived in NZ since I was 5 I’m now about to turn 70. I would dearly love to become a NZ citizen that would somehow complete my journey to finding my tūrangawaewae. However to do so I am required under NZ law to swear allegiance to the Queen and now the King of England! I just can’t bring myself do do that for all the reasons you outline in your korero. I live in hope that one day sanity will prevail and we will cast off our colonial shackles.
Well written (the stray apostrophe apart :)). I'm (NZ) Anglican but the little I was able to watch, I watched in horror at the association of the church with this obsolete monstrosity. I coupdn't agree with you more. I've shared it in a few family and FB contexts).
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
Thanks e hoa
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
Love this e hoa
Exactly well said. I have lived in NZ since I was 5 I’m now about to turn 70. I would dearly love to become a NZ citizen that would somehow complete my journey to finding my tūrangawaewae. However to do so I am required under NZ law to swear allegiance to the Queen and now the King of England! I just can’t bring myself do do that for all the reasons you outline in your korero. I live in hope that one day sanity will prevail and we will cast off our colonial shackles.
I've thought about that a lot, whether or not to do that in these formal ceremonies. Challenging right.
I absolutely agree!! This puts beautifully into words exactly what I was feeling and my colleague and I were discussing as we watched the coronation.
Thanks Aithnee
Well written (the stray apostrophe apart :)). I'm (NZ) Anglican but the little I was able to watch, I watched in horror at the association of the church with this obsolete monstrosity. I coupdn't agree with you more. I've shared it in a few family and FB contexts).
Thanks mate
Kia ora. Well said! However, I think KC111 is worth more like £600 million. So much is hidden about his finances but it’s way more than £1.8m.
Whoops thats meant to be billion, per recent analysis from the Gaurdian