Trustee, A Rocha International

Dr Kirstin Jeffrey Johnson, PhD St Andrews (Institute of Theology, Imagination, & the Arts), is an independent scholar and the director of ‘Windstone Farm Linlathen,’ an ecumenical nonprofit in the Ottawa Valley, Canada, that seeks to cultivate community through Theology, Ecology, & the Arts. There she stewards and facilitates ecological restoration on a 19thc settler farm, in traditional unceded Anishinaabe territory, and hosts conferences and events for a wide variety of adults, university students, and teens. Inspired by and engaging with A Rocha since the mid-nineties when a graduate student at Regent College, Vancouver, Kirstin’s work also builds on her farm-community upbringing on the forested edge of the Canadian Shield and a family history of ‘knowing the land.’ With the help of iNaturalist close to 1,400 species have been identified at Windstone (project link here), the photographing of which gives her great joy. (Windstone proudly boasts iNat’s largest number of Mound-building Swamp Ant mounds globally.)

Kirstin integrates all this with her work as a George MacDonald scholar, and publishes and lectures internationally on that 19th century literature teacher, author, preacher, and social activist (early environmentalist!), as well as on other Victorian Literature, the Inklings, and the integration of theology, ecology, and the arts. She has recent chapters in An Introduction to Child Theology (2022), Unsaying the Commonplace: MacDonald & Critique of Victorian Convention (2024), and Where the River Goes: Well Trilogy (2025). Her online work includes podcasts and interviews as well as lectures and classes. When not otherwise occupied, Kirstin delights in (re)introducing people to the boundless Book of Nature.