5 November is the anniversary of the invasion of the Maori settlement of Parihaka, Taranaki in 1881. I regularly teach a course called “Violence and Nonviolence in the Christian Tradition” at Pacific Theological College. In this course I include a session on […]
ANZAC Day I went to my second ever dawn service, this time in Wellington. I was pleased to some protesters but didn’t think burning a flag was necessary. They were right that the service was a justification for war – making violence […]
Today I completed the survey at http://www.8tribes.co.nz after seeing the book 8 Tribes – The Hidden Classes of New Zealand, by Jill Caldwell and Christopher Brown in a book shop. I did the survey on the website and here are the results: […]