Losing Ground

“In Losing Ground, Jione Havea actually gains ground in studies of Ruth, opening the book’s terrains to ongoing talanoa - storytelling, conversation, and questions the narrator refuses to answer. Culturally grounded on disappearing ground, these interpretive wonderings and wanderings discover the invisible people, the silenced stories, and the unspoken relations that escape the text’s boundaries and fly free in a world fighting for its life. Havea and his conversation partners offer a compelling model of how to ‘think with’ the Bible about the most pressing issues of our day.” Danna Nolan Fewell, Drew University, USA





“Prepare to be challenged as well as invigorated by reading the book of Ruth through the eyes of Pasifika Bible Studies gatherings, as they break open the text from their unique contexts of colonization and ecological crisis and trauma!”


Gale A. Yee, Episcopal Divinity School, USA