Huia Come Home cover art

Huia Come Home

 Preview
Try Premium Plus free
1 credit a month to buy any audiobook in our entire collection.
Access to thousands of additional audiobooks and Originals from the Plus Catalogue.
Member-only deals & discounts.
Auto-renews at $16.45/mo after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Huia Come Home

By: J. Ruka
Narrated by: J. Ruka
Try Premium Plus free

Auto-renews at $16.45/mo after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy Now for $22.99

Buy Now for $22.99

About this listen

Once the sacred guardian of New Zealand's native forests, the hHuia was a symbol of the land's unique beauty and spirituality. The rare bird's tragic extinction in the early 1900s represents a shot to the heart of Aotearoa and is a potent metaphor for a country's conflicted history.

Using the story of the untimely extinction of the huia, J. Ruka offers a fresh perspective on the narrative of New Zealand: a tale of two cultures, warring worldviews, and the things we lost in translation.

Revisiting the early missionaries, the transformative message of the Gospel, and the cultural missteps of the Treaty of Waitangi, Huia Come Home invites us to reconnect with the unique story offered by the indigenous Māori lens.

In relearning the history that lies in the soil of Aotearoa, we might just find a shared hope for the future and a recovery of national treasures once thought to be extinct.

©2017 Jefferson Lucas (aka J. Ruka) (P)2018 Jefferson Lucas (aka J. Ruka) Australia, New Zealand & Oceania Christianity Oceania
All stars
Most relevant
I will listen to this book over & over again. Aotearoa NZ's spiritual journey using our extinct Huia bird as an analagy of 200 years of cultural suppression in the name of God.
Highly recommended listening. The author, Jay Ruka is very easy to listen to. Thank you Jay.

Thank you God. Spiritual enlightenment.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
This is a hugely important book for Pakeha to challenge their world view. The narrator was excellent.

Important, challenging, inspirational

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Huia Come Home is an excellent book. Given it was first published in 2017, it feels prescient to the racism Māori are having to endure in 2025 during this incredibly destructive hard right Luxon coalition government.

Excellent Aotearoa History

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Incredibly powerful and important story which every New Zealander, Christian or otherwise, should learn from.

Powerful

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Totally Shocked By What I Learnt, It Aquired My Patience & Attention.
Found It Interesting 😉

Ross Richards Shared The Title Of This Book 13/07

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
This is one of those books that grip you and encourage you to step out further. Such a powerful story. Kia māia, kia manawanui

Beautiful

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
That was an amazing listen, every Christian and kiwi needs to read/hear this! Loved the history provided and the massive challenge directed at the church, flippin awesome. This book has challenged me as well, and from that I hope to grow

Ka mau te wehi!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
well researched, timely and prophetic. from the heart, non judgmental compassionatevand hopeful. brave and encouraging

great read

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
This is a fabulous book and an important book for all New Zealanders who call themselves Christians. I was a member of a church and was told that I could not have anything to do with Māori because they practiced idolatry with so many different gods and were evil. Because of this, I did not learn anything about my culture and I blame the church for giving me this warped thinking. This book has given me a different perspective . Thank you.

Tu meke

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
As a New Zealander, the untold history of the Gospel and Maori is important. This book challenges the long held western christian world view that is something that has been manufactured not from the Gospel but an interpretation is just one interpretation of it. The book and writer holds high the indigenous and spiritual world view of Maori and champions the fact that it is closer and more related to an authentic original Gospel of Jesus than we are lead to believe.

Eye-opening

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews
In the spirit of reconciliation, Audible acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.