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Defending donations

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In this 1982 clip the Samoan writer Albert Wendt defends the practice of publicly reading out the names of donors and the amounts of donations in Pacific churches. He argues that the tradition encourages individual commitment to church communities.

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Cluny Macpherson, Pacific churches in New Zealand – Challenges, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/26733/defending-donations (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Cluny Macpherson, published 21 February 2011.