Wild Church July events at Brooking, Dartington

Mary Magdalene Celebration All welcome – just pitch up! 5pm on Sunday 21st July at St Barnabas, Brooking TQ9 6DW Wild Monastery and our Wild Church warmly invite you to this special contemplative service on the Eve of the Feast of Mary Magdalene. All are welcome to join our small group in blending ancient tradition … Read more

Autumn ‘wander and wonder’

After 19 months of an unexpected fallow time, our Wild Church finally re-gathered for a Dartington based pilgrimage on the first Sunday in September 2020. An open welcome has always been central to River Dart Wild Church and usually we simply spread the word widely about where we are starting and anyone is welcome to … Read more

What Could ‘Church’ Be?

After a much needed sabbatical in 2019, what wonderful plans we had for 2020 and how very differently the year unfolded… for the whole world! As I write now in July 2020, so much remains uncertain, even as the ‘lockdown’ we have lived within in recent months begins to ease for many of us. Others … Read more

Advent Pilgrimage with Roots into Reverence

This was the first Roots into Reverence pilgrimage in Devon and the first in the depths of winter. We started out in the pale afternoon light of an early December day and the light faded as we walked a circular route from St Mary’s Church, Dartington. We walked in silence and in song and each … Read more

Sacred Spring Remembrance

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