Jione Havea is a Methodist pastor from Tonga and research fellow with Trinity Methodist Theological College (Aotearoa / New Zealand) and with the Public and Contextual Theology research centre of Charles Sturt University (Australia). He is the author of numerous books, most recently Scripture and Resistance. Theology in the Age of Empire.

“A new normal is not enough, if it is still conditioned by the same old pandemics - of coloniality, the compartmentalisations of life and the asymmetries of power. As this bold collective demands, Covid does not simply heighten our grasp of these graveyards, but opens up a portal to deeper solidarity.”

Jione Havea is a Methodist pastor from Tonga and research fellow with Trinity Methodist Theological College (Aotearoa / New Zealand) and with the Public and Contextual Theology research centre of Charles Sturt University (Australia). He is the author of numerous books, most recently Scripture and Resistance. Theology in the Age of Empire.

“A new normal is not enough, if it is still conditioned by the same old pandemics - of coloniality, the compartmentalisations of life and the asymmetries of power. As this bold collective demands, Covid does not simply heighten our grasp of these graveyards, but opens up a portal to deeper solidarity.”

Jione Havea is a Methodist pastor from Tonga and research fellow with Trinity Methodist Theological College (Aotearoa / New Zealand) and with the Public and Contextual Theology research centre of Charles Sturt University (Australia). He is the author of numerous books, most recently Scripture and Resistance. Theology in the Age of Empire.

“A new normal is not enough, if it is still conditioned by the same old pandemics - of coloniality, the compartmentalisations of life and the asymmetries of power. As this bold collective demands, Covid does not simply heighten our grasp of these graveyards, but opens up a portal to deeper solidarity.”