Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives will be holding its next “Archives and Inquiry” Virtual Speaker Series over Zoom on Tuesday, August 16, 2022 from 12pm to 1pm. Kahu Jonathan Stockton will give a talk on the contrast of worldviews of Tahitian and Hawaiian beliefs in the 19th century. Kahu Stockton will give an indigenous religious context to the people and culture that the American and Tahitian missionaries encountered in Hawai‘i in the 1820s.

Kahu Stockton gave this statement about his talk: “As we commemorate the Bicentennial of the arrival of the Tahitian Christian missionaries and the departure of the 2nd Company of American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions missionaries in 1822, it is crucial we give attention to the collision of vastly differing religious worldviews. This presentation will focus on Queen Ka’ahumanu as a guide for pre-missionary contact, her toil over and clashes with early missionaries and eventual adoption of a unique synthesis of Hawaiian Christian belief and practice. Important documents and current Hawaiian voices will be heard as we peer back to this incredible and crucial time of discovery.”

Jonathan Stockton is the pastor of Wananalua Congregational Church in Hana, Maui. Currently earning a M.Div. from Fuller Theological Seminary, Kahu Stockton has been a resident of Hana for the last 13 years and has family roots in the Hawaiʻi Island Communities of Kona and Kohala. He has researched the early missionary period in Hawaiʻi and has a great interest in bringing a better understanding to the challenges the Christian Church in Hawaiʻi faces as related to its historical development here.

Zoom Meeting ID: 834 5996 6594
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