Document Tag: Creation Care

Strategies for Landscape Recomposition

This document contains the slide presentations for a series of three workshops given in 2023 by architecture scholar Johnny Muhindo Ngunza. Ngunza explores the notion of peri-urbanity and explains the ecological challenges facing Africa’s expanding peri-urban territories. He proposes a hybrid response that draws on African cultural resources and the Bible’s cultural mandate. To invite concrete action, he shares the inspiring example of the erosion-resistant gardens from his LCI project. This resource is part of the IFES Logos and Cosmos Initiative Resource Library. It is a translation of the French original, also available in the Library.

Protecting the Environment

This Bible study guide on the environment, written by Beninese geographer Camille Yabi, helps us understand how the Bible wants us to understand and protect the natural world. This resource is one of the outputs of the project that the catalyst implemented in 2024, entitled “Strengthening inter-religious collaboration to protect the environment in central Benin.” This resource is part of the IFES Logos and Cosmos Initiative Resource Library. It is a translation of the French original, also available in the Library.

Responding to the climate crisis 2

In this second video from his 2022 project, catalyst Johnny Patal Gómez continues his interview with indigenous Panamanian Christian, Jocabed Solano. Solano explores “dominion theology” and says how the church should respond. This resource is part of the IFES Logos and Cosmos Initiative Resource Library. It is a translation of the Spanish original, also available in the Library.

Responding to the climate crisis 1

In this video from his 2022 project, catalyst Johnny Patal Gómez interviews indigenous Panamanian Christian, Jocabed Solano, about how she became an environmentalist. Solano focuses on themes including creation, colonialism, and capitalism. This resource is part of the IFES Logos and Cosmos Initiative Resource Library. It is a translation of the Spanish original, also available in the Library.

Threads of Hope

This collection of devotionals by forestry scholar Monica and her colleagues in ECU Costa Rica explores and puts into action the hope that Jesus is reconciling to Himself not only humanity but the whole of creation. It is the product of her 2023 LCI project called “Healing the earth of the Creator’s garden,” which was a response to the challenges of environmentally destructive monoculture forestry. This resource is part of the IFES Logos and Cosmos Initiative Resource Library. It is a translation of the Spanish original, also available in the Library.

Pollinating insects

This video shares speakers’ and participants’ responses to a 2025 conference in Burundi on theological, ecological, and cultural perspectives on pollinating insects. This resource is part of the IFES Logos and Cosmos Initiative Resource Library. The original French version of the PowerPoint slides from the conference are also available.