Tui Motu Interislands

19/12/2024

Recommended by a musicians and everyone who sings Shirley's hymns.

By Anne Manchester. Published by Philip Garside Publishing, 2024.. Reviewed by Jill McLoughlin

18/12/2024

Moving on with life.

An article by Tui Motu InterIslands Magazine

18/12/2024

A dedicated read for a relaxed time.

Edited by Robert J Myles, Caroline Blyth and Emily Colgan. Published by Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2024. Reviewed by Susan Smith

17/12/2024

Odysseus returns home after 20 years of war.

Directed by Uberto Pasolini (UK, 2024). NZ International Film Festival, 2024; general release in December. Reviewed by Paul Tankard

15/12/2024

Women deacons in the Church — is it really a problem??

Casey Stanton talks to Ann Gilroy about how the Synod brought discussion of women's participation in the church and women deacons to the agenda.

13/12/2024

Of interest?

By Abigail Favale. Published by Ignatius Press, 2022. Reviewed by Forrest Chambers

11/12/2024

The situation is urgent. Read about how you can help.

Eugene Doyle reflects on the dire outcome for babies and children in Gaza, at this time, and urges us to do all we can to bring to a close Israel’s war on Palestinians.

11/12/2024

Tthoughts for the day leading up to Christmas.

For What It’s Worth

10/12/2024

Need a new podcast? Listen to Jane Higgins speaking with Ann Hassan.

An article by Tui Motu InterIslands Magazine

10/12/2024

Make sure you put in a submission to stop the Treaty Principles Bill.

An article by Tui Motu InterIslands Magazine

09/12/2024

You probably want to make a submission to parliament on the Treaty Principles Bill. Greenpeace, Common Grace and Caritas have all made submission builders to use for this purpose.

Use this quick tool to go through a submission building process for the Treaty Principles Bill.

05/12/2024

Congratulations Hana! May you go from strength to strength!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-4f79d09b-655a-42f8-82b4-9b2ecebab611

04/12/2024

Peter Matheson echoes the biblical exiles in his poem of longing for vision and equality in our country and world.

How long?

How long must we swallow this thin gruel
From our callous government?
Are we mice or men, wāhine or wimps?
Enough is enough! Let’s expose this charade!

Their latest ploy: 70% rise in fares, so
Public transport goes down the gurgler,
Public health already on the skids,
Nurses jobless, our hospital a plaything
For assiduous counters of beans.

For far too long this Coalition has been
Ripping apart the fabric of our lives,
Clueless about whakapapa, blind to
Pacific freedoms and independence,
Fast tracking environmental folly, while
Snail paced on restitution to the abused.
35,000 Southern voices have already cried foul;
Kiingi Tuheitia has spoken for us all:
Togetherness is the better way.

Let’s stop these bumblers in their tracks,
Restore our heritage: walk tall,
Head held high, in our beautiful land.

03/12/2024

Jubilee Year of Hope begins on 24 December 2024. Many many in the world are all but drained of hope so we need to step up!

Only a few days remain until the opening of the Holy Door in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, marking the beginning of the Holy Year 2025.

01/12/2024

Lois Griffith speaks out for Palestine:

K Gurunathan's article "Sparks Fly as Political Tinder of Maori Anger Builds" (Press Nov 25) , argues that the injustices imposed by colonialism, including the "systematic confiscation of Maori land", leading to poverty and cultural alienation are factors behind the anger expressed by the recent hikoi.
We need to learn NZ history.
One needs to learn history in order to understand the present.
But we need to learn world history too.
Coincidentally I am in the middle of reading Israeli journalist Gideon Levy's most recent book "The Killing of Gaza". Levy has been there many times, reporting first hand about the sadistic cruelty imposed on its people, a cruelty that began in 1948. He explains that Hamas promotes armed resistance as a last resort. Any other approach has been ignored.
The Israeli regime is being accused now, of war crimes. But war crimes have been going on for decades. But oh, it sickens me to even think of what is happening now. It is genocide, genocide out in the open. In the words of Bethlehem Lutheran Pastor Munther Isaac "Gaza today has become the moral compass of the world."

28/11/2024

What would stop us doing this in the Jubilee year 2025?

Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand is joining others from the Catholic Church’s international aid agency's call for climate debt to be wiped out in vulnerable Pacific