God
Creator & Sustainer · Salvation
Made to live in loving relationship with God, worshiping Him as Creator and trusting Him as Provider.
Theory of Change
From broken to restored.
How Redeeming Earth transforms the relationship between faith, people, and the living world.
Download the PDFThe problem we are addressing
A world disconnected from its design.
We live in an age of fractured relationships: between people and God, people and one another, and humanity and the natural world. These ruptures are not separate crises. They are one crisis with many faces.
The Theological Gap
The Church has largely treated creation care as a secondary concern; a political issue rather than a theological imperative. When believers lose sight of creation as a gift from God, stewardship becomes charity rather than worship, and ecological harm goes unchallenged in communities of faith.
The Cultural Divide
Environmental advocates and people of faith rarely share the same table. Conversations about the earth are often polarized, leaving enormous potential for collaboration unrealized. Shared love for the created world goes unmobilized because the language of faith and the language of ecology remain strangers.
The Design Deficit
Our dominant economic and industrial systems extract from creation rather than learn from it. They generate waste where God's design produces renewal. Humanity has largely forgotten that creation itself is a library of wisdom… a living revelation of God's intelligence embedded in every ecosystem.
The Action Gap
Even people who care deeply about God, neighbor, and the earth often lack the framework, community, or practical tools to translate conviction into meaningful, sustained action. Good intentions remain dormant without equipping, connection, and community.
The foundation
Four relationships, restored.
Our theory of change is built on the conviction that the gospel restores the four relationships that shape human flourishing: with God, self, others, and creation.
Self
Image-bearer & Steward · Sanctification
Made in God's image, bearing dignity, purpose, and the call to steward our gifts and influence.
Others
Neighbors & Community · Service
Called to love others as ourselves, seeking justice, reconciliation, and flourishing for all.
Creation
Entrusted to our care · Stewardship
The earth is the Lord's; we care for, protect, and cultivate it as an act of worship.
Our logic of change
The path from conviction to impact.
When people encounter the beauty and intelligence of God’s design and are equipped and connected, they act. And when they act together across lines of faith and culture, the world is transformed.
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We Awaken Wonder & Theological Vision
If people, both inside and outside the Church, encounter the genius of God's design in creation through biblical teaching, scientific wonder, and compelling story, then a foundational shift in how they see the world occurs. Creation is no longer background; it becomes revelation. Care for the earth becomes inseparable from worship of the Creator.
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We Educate for Understanding & Equip for Action
Then we provide the frameworks, knowledge, and practical tools that translate awakened vision into real-world stewardship. We teach regenerative design and circular economy principles rooted in God's patterns of renewal. We help communities learn from creation, as Scripture commands, and apply that wisdom in their vocations, homes, and local contexts.
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We Build Bridges Across Faith & Culture
So that Christians and non-Christians who share a love for creation, neighbor, and community can find common ground and work together as Earthkeepers. Redeeming Earth creates the connective tissue: shared language, collaborative projects, and a vision of mutual responsibility that transcends political and theological divides.
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Creation Is Redeemed, Communities Are Restored
Thus the four broken relationships with God, self, others, and creation are progressively restored. Churches reclaim their role as creation-caring communities. Leaders emerge who integrate faith, science, and sustainability. Measurable ecological restoration takes root. A new cultural imagination forms: one in which caring for the earth is understood as one of the most deeply human and deeply Christian things a person can do.
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Two pathways, one convergence
How we work.
Redeeming Earth meets people on two pathways — Science and Scripture — that converge in awe, wonder, and the shared practices of biomimicry, circular design, and regenerative work.
Pathway One
Science
For the scientist, designer, and nature lover. You already practice or admire biomimicry, circular design, and regenerative work. We add the theology underneath; the Author whose patterns your work has been reading, and the scripture that has been quietly saying the same things.
- Biomimicry and regenerative practitioners introduced to creation theology
- Shared vocabulary for awe, design, and the Author behind both
- Faith framed as a deepening of the work, not a constraint on it
- Collaboration with non-Christian Earthkeepers honored as kingdom-shaped
Pathway Two
Scripture
For pastors, faith communities, and lifelong disciples. We introduce biomimicry, circular design, and regenerative practice; show how each is foreshadowed in scripture; and celebrate that good people of every belief are already doing this work. The church is invited to join, not to compete.
- Congregations introduced to biomimicry, circular, and regenerative practice
- Creation care framed as worship, not a political add-on
- Pastors equipped to bless the secular work already healing creation
- New disciples drawn into a fuller, embodied gospel
Convergence
Awe, Wonder & Shared Practice
Both pathways converge in awe and wonder; and from there, in the three practices that follow naturally. Christians and non-Christians who share a love for creation, neighbor, and place become collaborators, Earthkeepers, friends.
- Collaborative Earthkeeping projects across belief lines
- Faith communities engaged in their local ecosystems
- Shared stewardship that honors people, purpose, and place
- Visible good deeds that open doors to deeper conversation
Key assumptions
What we believe must be true.
About People
When people truly encounter God's design in creation, they are moved; both believers and non-believers carry an innate capacity for wonder and responsibility toward the natural world.
Christians who understand biblical stewardship will integrate creation care into their discipleship, not treat it as an optional add-on.
Shared values like love of neighbor, place, and creation can build genuine collaboration across theological and cultural divides.
People who are equipped and connected will act. The gap between caring and doing is primarily a gap in knowledge, tools, and community.
About the World
God's design in creation holds wisdom for every domain of human life: from industrial systems to agriculture to architecture. Learning from creation is not naive; it is strategic.
The Church has a unique and irreplaceable role to play in ecological restoration; one it has largely abdicated but can reclaim.
Systemic change requires cultural change first. When the story changes, the systems follow.
Regeneration in ecology, in community, in the human soul is God's pattern. We are aligning with the grain of the universe, not swimming against it.
Long-term vision
What success looks like.
We are planting seeds for a multi-generational harvest. These are the markers by which we will know the theory is working.
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A Renewed Theology of Creation Care
The church and academy embrace stewardship as central to discipleship, not peripheral. Creation care is taught from pulpits, seminaries, and schools as an expression of the full Gospel.
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A Growing Love of Neighbor that Encourages Action
Communities of faith become known for their care of people and place, demonstrating that loving God, neighbor, and creation are one seamless act of worship.
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Collaborative Earthkeeping Projects
Believers and non-believers work side-by-side on regenerative projects… from community gardens to urban restoration, united by love of creation and neighbor.
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Measurable Ecological Restoration
Visible improvements in regenerative design, waste reduction, and biodiversity; driven by faith-inspired communities applying God's design principles to real-world systems.
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A New Generation of Leaders
Young men and women who integrate faith, science, and sustainability, equipped to lead in every sphere of culture, carrying a whole-life theology into their vocations.
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A New Cultural Imagination
A world where the genius of God's creation is recognized and honored… where caring for the earth is understood as one of the most profoundly human and holy things we can do.