Status Updates From Huia Come Home

“The hope for New Zealand is that every ethnicity at home in New Zealand would one day be able to authentically say to a degree that they are indigenous” WHAT you have absolutely lost me, and on the last page too. Whose hope is this?? Is it just me or is this a crazy thing to say? I wanted to enjoy this book or at least agree on some things, but alas. Not enough genuine critique of Christianity’s impact in NZ

“While Christianity has been blamed as a major cause of colonisation, it has not however sustained or instigated colonisation” … ??? Crazy that the author believes this to be true. Not enough repentance happening in this book imo

I think I have too many negative thoughts about Christianity to give this book a fair reading! I am liking the kōrero about te ao Māori and spirituality/Christianity though, and agree with the author that the NZ Church at large is western as hell and so far removed from the whenua it resides on.

Really unsure how I am finding this book. Just read a chapter v much defending Henry Williams and some of the early missions in Aotearoa. I think it’s probably true to say that not all missionaries were bad people, but I am not sure I’m on board the waka re the reframing of missionaries as SJWs? The multiplicity of humans is confusing.