Jione Havea is a co-parent for a polycultural daughter, a native pastor (in the Methodist Church in Tonga), and a senior research fellow with Trinity Theological College (Aotearoa New Zealand) and the Centre for Research, Ethics, and Society (Charles Sturt University, Australia).
"""From the global margins, islands scattered across the Pacific, voices often ignored are heard crying for well-being. Jione Havea assembles scholars rooted in an indigenous intersectional worldview which connects sound theology with sound bodies and a sound environment, thus challenging the Eurocentric, anthropocentric worldview responsible for so much of the world's (dis)ease. We--the reader--are invited to a Pasifika table to feast on and learn from the wisdom that undergirds the well-being of bodies and islands, traditions and theologies, imaginations and worldviews."" --Miguel A. De La Torre, professor of social ethics and Latinx studies, Iliff School of Theology ""Jione Havea, island theologian by heart and vocation, floats to us the waves of Pasifika theology by his fellow travelers from the archipelago. Their mode of storytelling theology and their plea for ecojustice shakes traditional academic theologies to the ground."" --Volker K�ster, author of The Many Faces of Jesus Christ: Intercultural Christology"