In this episode, Mika and Rachel speak with Rev. Māmari Stephens, Reader in Law. Māmari is a priest in the Anglican Church and an associate professor in the Law School at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington. Mika, Rachel, and Māmari chat about the three tikanga model of the Anglican Church, feminism in the Law, and some of the problems with the welfare system. Māmari offers thoughtful critique and nuanced wisdom about the Church and the Law and reflects on where she draws hope from in her life and work.

Show notes

• mana definitions
• Whatarangi Winiata (National Library of New Zealand)
• Jenny Te Paa Daniel
• Imago dei definition
• Grant Morris, Law Alive: The New Legal System in Context (2019)
• Tikanga Māori to be taught in law degree courses, Te Ao Maori News (March 2022)
• Peter Ellis: Supreme Court decision reaffirms tikanga relevance to legal framework, RNZ News (October 2022)
• wānanga definitions
• rāhui definitions
• Annette Sykes
• Lex Aotearoa: An Heroic Attempt to Map the Māori Dimension in Modern New Zealand Law, Justice Sir Joseph Williams
• Natalie Coates
• Feminist Judgments of Aotearoa New Zealand: Te Rino: A Two-Stranded Rope, edited by Elisabeth McDonald, Rhonda Powell, Mamari Stephens & Rosemary Hunter (2017)
• Stacey Morrison: Mana wāhine embedded in Māori world view, NZ Herald (September 2018)
• whaikōrero definitions
• Universal Basic Income policy, The Opportunities Party
• The Big Kahuna: Turning Tax and Welfare on Its Head in New Zealand, Gareth Morgan and Susan Guthrie (2011)
• DPB - Domestic Purposes Benefit
• The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S Lewis

Many thanks to everyone makes this podcast possible. Music by Toby Sussex. Logo by Adam De Jong. Production, editing, and show notes by Matthew Bartlett and Rayne Aldridge. This podcast is associated with Chaplaincy VUW.