Ngā Here - The Many Connections
Ngā Here - The Many Connections
James Beck
Haerenga Tuawhā - Part 2 - Violence, Hope, and Water
57 minutes Posted Aug 30, 2025 at 8:00 pm.
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In this episode of Ngā Here, the team travels into the breathtaking Makarora Valley. Along the way, they reflect on stories of ancestral journeys, and the impacts of human land modification — from Foulden Maar to the Clyde Dam. James, Waiora, and Andrew then turn to the story of Noah in Genesis 6–9 and ask what it has to say about our world today. Together they wrestle with the uncomfortable parts of the text — God’s grief, human violence, and the flood — and explore what it means to desecrat...