The 21 Elephants Podcast

Welcome to 'Before I Go', our season on death and dying. In this fifth episode of season five, we talk with Laura Bryce about her experience of chronic illness, being a woman in the church, and smuggling bibles into communist Romania.

In this episode, Scottie and Spanky meet with the Reverend Frank Ritchie. Frank runs a church in Hamilton called Commoners that has no musical worship and centres itself around liturgy and silence. This episode asks how Frank's approach might offer a solution to the growing influence of consumerism on how congregations worship together today. Here are two helpful resources we mentioned on the episode:
A New Zealand Prayer Book : He Karakia Mihinare o Aotearoa
http://anglicanprayerbook.nz
Night Prayer No.6 (skip to p.184)
http://anglicanprayerbook.nz/167.html

Scottie & Spanky continue their conversation with Jay Ruka and learn about his reconnection with Māori identity.
You can buy Jay's book, 'Huia Come Home', and learn more about his work at http://www.huiacomehome.co.nz

Kia Ora! It's been a while since you heard from us - so in this episode Spanky fills ya'll in on what our upcoming season of 21 Elephants is going to be about. And to tide you over in the meantime, we've included the debut episode of Ngā Here - The Many Connections. It's a new podcast that Spanky's been working on that explores the many connections between the Bible, caring for creation, and te ao māori - and we think you'll probably like it. (Here the other episodes and subscribe at www.buzzsprout.com/2021350)

On this final episode of Season 3 we sit down with James Harris from World Vision and hear his story of working alongside illegally detained asylum seekers on Nauru.