A special guest speaker - Bishop Muru Walters

Lynne Duncan from Pencarrow writes:
Greetings - our club received a very special blessing this week from our erudite speaker Bishop Muru Walters.
The notes for his densely packed talk are attached. I hope you can take the time to read them.
We have received a very rare and precious gift, a taonga.

Although the Bishop reflected upon the four symbols of our newsletter, as artist, theologian and sportsman, we are also aware that he brings a Maori perspective that is very much valued.
All delivered by Muru the man, who led us into his world of creativity, inclusion and surprises. We were asked to consider Creation from nothing through to 50%, with the remainder left in the hands of others to continue or pass on; and equally to consider the habits of dogs when they meet, offering the throat and cuddling the throat. We were asked to consider colonisation as a gift; to consider the effect of the plough in reducing conflict, as people no longer went to dangerous places for food. Or more succinctly, 1 pork = 2000 pigeons.
In giving back to us our symbols as a model for living life in NZ, Bishop Walters identified them as symbols of good, to be interpreted inclusively by us all as privileged New Zealanders.
Tena koe, e hoa, mo to korero pai