"If we focus fully on science based knowledge, we miss other dimensions of Pacific and Indigenous knowledge all together." ❤️❤️❤️❤️ - Dr. Upolu Luma Vaai, Oceanic Spirituality, Eco-Relational Consciousness, and Climate Security

“A foundationless decolonisation process would end up either repeating the hat we want to deconstruct or unreflectively removing or adopting foreign worldviews as our foundation” - Upolu Lumā Vaai & Unaisi Nabobo-Baba

A beautiful piece here by Professor Upolu Luma Vaai is Professor of Theology and Ethics and Principal of the Pacific Theological College in Fiji 📝 Register BELOW!

New Public Conversation from Toda Peace Institute with PTC Principal, Rev Dr Upolu Luma Vaai. He speaks with Kevin Clements and Volker Boege about developing a Pacific ecorelational approach to climate change youtube.com/watch?v=n6dOQD…

A truly blessed start to my day- and year - to be able to join the first 2023 welcome worship and communion at #PacificTheologicalCollege - vinaka Principal Rev. Upolu Vaai and Padre Jose Burgos

"Stories are liquid versions of life. They flow. They breathe. Mutable. Passible. Alterable. Like clouds, they travel from one end of the generational horizons to another, breathing as long as communities breathe. Thus they become liquid stories. Fluid. Drifting. Changeable."

Had the opportunity to host Benny Wenda and his team from West Papua in the PTC chapel. They are in Fiji to lobby for support for West Papua to be a full member of the Melanesian Spearhead Group and to speak of the violence and unrecognized genocide by the Indonesian military.

PTC hosted H.E. Leon Siu, foreign affairs minister of Hawaii Kingdom, here to petition forum leaders for Havaii to return to the Pasifika aiga. "One of the injustices and injuries of our colonization is, we were separated from our Pasifika family, a tactic to erase our memories."

In Rarotonga, meeting with Acting Prime Minister of Cook Is today, Hon. Robert Tapaitau, discussing government support for the Cook Is Congregational Church and raising concerns from the Pacific churches on the issue of deep sea mining. #wholeoflife, #changethestory

Join our "Certificate in Philosophical Competency" in Pasifika Philosophies, Research, and Development, a two weeks summer course July 14-28th, 2023. Don't miss the opportunity to be in Fiji. For more info, click ptc.ac.fj/pasifika-philo…. To register, ptc.ac.fj/application-fo…

A guest lecture at the Auckland University of Technology. I am looking forward to my own unlearning and relearning.

It has been two years since I was away from Twitter. Now I'm back strong. Hoping to post up many exciting developments on my own work in Pasifika philosophies, theologies, and their implications in cultivating a (k)new development consciousness in the region.