Hospitality

It definitely is what it's all about.

And there is that, like you just mentioned, that Manaakitanga award as well.

But this level of competition, the biggest equine event in the country, particularly since Horse of the Year 2018. uh was was canned talk us through what's happening on the ground how many riders how many horses how many parents um and the logistics of of managing all that because i mean you've got to find paddocks and feed and everything

yeah it's it's a huge it's like bringing a village in um It's like doing a music festival as well as having a competition.

Thinking about the table in particular, what often comes to mind is hospitality, inviting over friends and family and people from church and different things for a meal.

But of course, in the ancient world, hospitality is not something you do for insiders, but for outsiders.

Philoxenia, lover of the strange, the stranger, the strange stuff, whatever.

Thinking about know the odyssey we all just watched the odyssey over the summer right and and and how how that is such a prominent theme in the odyssey and particularly the way that you know nolan has has tweaked it a a little bit but thinking about that for you know the gospels like you said with with jesus's life sort of demonstrating this you know one of the examples that comes to mind that really kind of hits home this this notion of philoxenia is the great banquet of luke 14 right invite invite all these people who are not going to be able to reciprocate uh and invite you back to their own homes for meals and these sorts of things i'm wondering if you could speak to that but but specifically what does it look like to do that well

okay there's a lot that's a great question i One of the things that's interesting to me is how we've conflated hospitality and entertaining.