Tikanga Maori

Te Orokohanganga o te Ao/ Na Tina ni Vanua/The Earth as our Mother Anglican Women’s Studies Centre Provincial Hui 2021 Equipping ourselves to safeguard the integrity of creation, and sustain and renew the life of the earth. More information about the Hui -- Booking formInformation about presenters and Workshops St Peter’s School, Cambridge. 13-16 October 2021 This leadership Hui is for women in the Anglican Church, lay and ordained, younger and older, all who are exercising leadership or wanting to do so! We have exciting speakers coming from politics, community, church, and academia, with accompanying creative activities across the three ...

          by Jane Simpson On Easter Monday a householder in Aranui, Christchurch, was sluicing down her front steps. In the sweltering heat they were dry in next to no time. The packing was done. The movers were coming the next day. Thirty minutes later a small group gathered at the entrance, each holding a copy of a new book left: Prayer at the entrance Their son, Wayne, had come down from Wellington to help with the packing and cleaning.The whānau were joined by two friends from the Diocesan Bicultural Education Committee, Marjorie Smart and Shirley Free, and by the author ...

Celebrating our three tikanga richness as we move forward AWSC Council and Links gathered for two very interesting days of sharing experience, leadership training, theological reflection, personal growth, and local facilitation. The setting was the hospitable St Francis Retreat Centre, in Hillsborough, Auckland, right beside the beautiful old Pah homestead and Monte Cecilia Park.  Council and Links worked together to construct the program  for the Provincial Leadership Hui  to be held 13-16 October 2021, in the Waikato.  It was an exciting and creative process Who's Who? Present back row: Val Riches, Council for tikanga Pakeha; Jean Palmer, alternate Link for ...

A theological reflection on mana wahine and how it can address gender based violenceThe Rev Ruihana Kaylene Marama Paenga rangatahi@tpoa.nz 3 Nov 2020 Mana Wahine as a faith- based expression of indigenous female leadership was the concept explored in a fascinating virtual theology chat on 4 December. Speaking from a Tuhoe perspective, Ruihana Paenga wove the Maori and Biblical creation stories together into an illuminating discussion of the concepts of mana and tapu. You can hear the recording onhttps://anglicanchurch-nz.zoom.us/rec/share/N2as9VcHSXMiZ2SKdheXQ6IxXrA-n9nlGShMOP0Kb-eyrODLy0GN3UmM1iELNrwG.vTK92lVAUvKJeJfX Passcode: 77mbdD6* You can listen as Ruihana gives her theoretical background, and draws out implications for the first 45 minutes, followed by ...

Thursday 3 December 2020. 7pm-8pm Join by Zoom Ko tōku Mana Wahine:  A theological reflection on mana wahine and how mana wahine influences Gender Justice and reduces Gender Based Violence. This talk will discuss the Māori concept of Mana Wahine as compared to gender equality and women's leadership in the Bible.  We will examine the execution of the concept by a range of individuals and how this concept of feminist leadership can be influential in eradicating gender based violence in New Zealand. Everyone is welcome to Zoom in , to hear Ruihana Paenga. She will talk for around 20 minutes, ...