E ngā maunga whakahī o te motu, tena rā tatou katoa, Ko James Beck tēni I’m James Beck. And welcome to this one-off episode of Ngā Here.
If you have listened to Ngā Here before, you will know that usually, I take a couple of people to some remote location, to discuss what the bible might have to say about the state of our planet, about living in a country which is working through the impacts of colonisation, and about how the church is called to respond to our aching world…
If you haven't listened to Ngā Here before, then welcome…
This episode is similar to the first couple of seasons because I took someone new up to the secluded hut hidden in native bush and surrounded by birds on Te Pataka o Rakaihoutū or Banks Peninsular…
But it's a bit different because instead of walking through a passage of the bible, we get to hear a bit of the story of someone who has spent their life following Jesus into the gaps between Christianity and conservation.
Peter Harris is the co-founder of A Rocha, a Christian environmental organisation.
After working as an English teacher and then as an Anglican clergyman Peter and his wife Miranda moved to Portugal in 1983 to establish and run A Rocha’s first field study centre and bird observatory. In 1995 the work was given over to national leadership and they moved to France where together with national colleagues they oversaw the establishment of two other centres while travelling to resource the growing movement of Christians active in nature conservation. The A Rocha story is told in Peter’s first two books: Under the Bright Wings and Kingfisher’s Fire
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