{"id":1195,"date":"2017-05-31T10:03:27","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T09:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/?p=1195"},"modified":"2017-07-20T10:23:07","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T09:23:07","slug":"tanya-riches-talks-about-the-lack-of-representation-of-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-in-the-australian-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/2017\/05\/31\/tanya-riches-talks-about-the-lack-of-representation-of-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-in-the-australian-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanya Riches talks about the lack of representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander in the Australian Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro_user\">Cadbury Centre Honorary Associate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/staff\/profiles\/tr\/riches-tanya.aspx\">Dr Tanya Riches<\/a> and Kabi Kabi\/Gureng Gureng\/Torres Strait Islander woman Larissa Minnieconn addressed the Christian Media &amp; Arts Australia on 17 May 2017 under the theme of \u201cLegacy,\u201d presenting a future vision for the Australian church.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1196\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1196\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1196\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2017\/07\/riches2-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"Dr Tanya Riches and Larissa Minnieconn. Photo credit \u2013 Rachel Chow\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2017\/07\/riches2-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2017\/07\/riches2-768x523.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2017\/07\/riches2-250x170.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2017\/07\/riches2.jpg 912w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1196\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr Tanya Riches and Larissa Minnieconn. Photo credit \u2013 Rachel Chow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In particular, they spoke honestly of the lack of representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Christians, with Larissa speaking of her ancestor being \u201cblackbirded\u201d (enslaved) in Vanuatu.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Riches said that in follow-up conversations it became clear that one leading Christian media organization with over 16,000 hours of content only had two half-hour pieces on Aboriginal Australians. According to Dr Riches, these kinds of stories highlight \u201cThe Aboriginal Disadvantage of Social Exclusion\u201d as present in the church. Dr Riches believes that globally, &#8220;we have great responsibility to continue to advocate for more diversity in the images of what Christianity is, and the issues that Christians are willing to face.&#8221; For her, living in Oceania, there are large groups of Indigenous Christians who are vulnerable to poverty and environmental degradation.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_468\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-468\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-468\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2016\/12\/Tanya-Riches_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"238\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-468\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tanya Riches, Honorary Research Fellow at the Edward Cadbury Centre for the Public Understanding of Religion (\u00a9 Tanya Riches)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cadbury Centre Honorary Associate Dr Tanya Riches and Kabi Kabi\/Gureng Gureng\/Torres Strait Islander woman Larissa Minnieconn addressed the Christian Media &amp; Arts Australia on 17 May 2017 under the theme of \u201cLegacy,\u201d presenting a future vision for the Australian church. In particular, they spoke honestly of the lack of representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/2017\/05\/31\/tanya-riches-talks-about-the-lack-of-representation-of-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-in-the-australian-church\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tanya Riches talks about the lack of representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander in the Australian Church&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":1197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-1195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-civic-life","tag-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1199,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions\/1199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}