30. A Maori Ethic for Earthkeeping: Jay Matenga of the World Evangelical Alliance

Earthkeepers: A Circlewood Podcast on Creation Care and Spirituality

In this episode we talk with Jay Matenga, Executive Director of the World Evangelical Alliance Mission Commission. Jay is known for bringing unconventional thinking to his work—perspectives that confront status quo assumptions, and call into question what he calls the “industrial ethics” that cause us to be separated from the earth--and from one another. From his grounding in indigenous Maori culture, he offers thought-provoking insights that “cut new grooves of understanding” about how we might live differently with our ecologies.

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Guest: Dr. Jay Matenga - director of Missions & Evangelism for World Evangelical Alliance Executive Director of WEA's Mission Commission
Jay's website & blog
Dr. Matenga's Doctoral dissertation - The Mutuality of Belonging

Mentions:
Colossians 1:15-17
UN sustainability goals
Whakapapa - Maori term for genealogy/ legacy /heritage
Dr. Matenga's article discussing Whakapapa
Charles Taylor - Canadian philosopher
Owen Barfield -English lawyer & an Inkling
the Inklings
panentheism - the idea that God is in everything
MacKinsey's 2021 Global Energy Perspective report
critical race theory
zero sum game
ecotone definition
decolonization of knowledge
New Zealand is an example of conversation around biculturalism (definition) and doing recompense (definition)
epistemological rupture
Dr. James Loder - book The Transforming Moment
interpersonal neurobiology - inter-relational interactions is what shapes us as people
Keywords: Maori, indigenous, New Zealand, industrial ethics, mauri-ora, whole life mission, animism,

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