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🗓️ 19 July 2021
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0:00.0 | There is a book on racial justice that you are not likely to find on any New York Times |
0:16.1 | bestseller list, but it is hands down one of my all-time favorites. |
0:20.9 | It's called Hueyah Come Home by Jay Raca from New Zealand, who is both a follower of Jesus |
0:25.7 | and a Maori writer. |
0:27.7 | In it, he tells the tragic, complex and at the same time beautiful story of the interplay |
0:33.5 | between the indigenous people of Ataroa, or as we would say New Zealand, the missionary |
0:38.8 | movement of the 19th and 20th centuries, and the multi-generational trauma of colonialism. |
0:45.2 | He opens with a story from a few years before the infamous James Kirk, who is most definitely |
0:50.6 | not a follower of Jesus. |
0:52.4 | Do I say Kirk? |
0:53.4 | Kirk. |
0:54.4 | See Star Trek right in there. |
0:57.6 | It's a nasty goodness, but you see the nod there in Star Trek, right? |
1:01.8 | Before he discovered New Zealand in 1769, there was a famous Maori tribal prophet or oracle |
1:09.4 | who had a vision of a strange people with white skin coming on large ships. |
1:16.2 | It was so vivid that he went around from tribe to tribe in the north and the south islands |
1:22.1 | to act out the coming Europeans. |
1:24.9 | He made a basket and he put it on his head to mimic a hat. |
1:28.2 | He cut apart a cloak and he put it around his legs to mimic pants. |
1:31.7 | He fastened a rock to the end of a stick and put it in his mouth to mimic a pipe and |
1:36.2 | he brought this prophecy to the tribes. |
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