Wild Church gathered for a special Remembrance Sunday pilgrimage this year with local poet, Roselle Angwin. Roselle was brought up in Cornwall, where sacred springs abound and in recent years has developed her own well keeper course, so it was a particular pleasure to have her join us as a guide for an afternoon centred … Read more
I love working with and supporting all the Wild Church collaborators… and yet it is also a bit of a treat when I get to guide a pilgrimage completely in my own way! So this was a special Sunday for me and especially as, after four years of co-ordinating Wild Church events, I will be … Read more
People have gathered in Totnes for many hundreds of years and a significant part of what has drawn them and enabled community to flourish here is the abundance of water. Not only has Totnes been a vital place for trade and travel thanks to the River Dart, whose tidal channels are deep enough to provide … Read more
We were blessed with a perfectly sunny July day for our third canoe pilgrimage. Every year I think it can’t be any better and yet somehow it becomes more magical each time. Once again our big canoe of pilgrims set off from Tuckenhay for a contemplative day in communion with the river and her creatures. … Read more
Our second Wild Church pilgrimage was guided by Mothiur Rahman, who led us in a contemplative journey upstream alongside the Bidwell Brook which flows through the heart of Dartington village. With pauses for poetry and reflection along the way, Mothiur invited us to explore of themes of disconnection and reconnection in our relationship with water. … Read more