May 19, 2025

The Diocese's HULI team is kicking off their special Summer Speaker Series this Saturday, May 24, 2025, with Dr. Kamanamaikalani Beamer. The online Zoom session will run from 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m., and the topic is “Waiwai: Water and the Future of Hawaiʻi.”

Dr. Kamanamaikalani Beamer is a full professor at the University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa with a dual appointment in the School of Hawaiian Knowledge and Richardson School of Law. Join him as he leads this timely session on our fragile water ecosystem in Hawai'i.  

Be sure to register to receive the Zoom link by clicking on the Register button below. Sign up for one or all three speakers (see further below):

Mark your calendars for the next two speakers coming up in July and August:

• Saturday, July 26 - The Rev. Rachel Taber-Hamilton is a Shackan First Nation person and an Episcopal priest. She has served in the Diocese of Olympia for 23 years and was elected vice president of the House of Deputies at the 2022 General Convention. 

• Saturday, August 2 - "What Does the Earth Ask of Us?" with Robin Wall Kimmerer, a botanist and member of the Potawatomi Nation. She is author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants. There will be a pre-recorded talk with live Q&A.

In 2025, Kahuaola ("Guardians of Life" formerly the Creation Care and Environmental Justice Task Force) in collaboration with the Racial Reconciliation Task Force and the Native Hawaiian Ministry Committee, was awarded a Creation Care Grant from The Episcopal Church. With this award and the support of the Diocese, we are weaving mālama ʻāina through our shared work and the diocesan events for the year, called Huli ka lima i lalo. Throughout 2025, creation care centered events are being offered beginning with Spring Training (turning our minds), a summer online speaker series (our hearts), and ending with service work (our hands) at different sites around O'ahu, during Convention 57's Education Day in October.

Huli is a creation care revival—to continue and carry on this important call and responsibility in Hawaiʻi. So, for this year, we welcome all to turn our hands to the earth, as guardians of life: “Huli: ka lima I lalo.”