As I (Sam) write, I’m just back from our Wild Saints celebration on Dartmoor and the old festival of Samhain – Summer’s End – was very much in my mind as I drove through the autumn mist to Manaton early this morning. The path to St Winifred’s Church was golden with fallen linden leaves and … Read more
Today is the Feast of the Ascension and another wonderful celebration in the Christian ‘seasons of the spirit’. Meeting once a month means that Wild Church was a little ahead of the game for Ascension when we gathered on Sunday May 3rd but I (Sam) have appreciated starting conversations about the meaning and experience of … Read more
With eggs and muesli in the backpack, we set off from Dartington at 6am to get to the 6:15 sunrise service at Holy Trinity, a ruined church on an outcrop of rock overlooking Buckfast Abbey. 23 years ago the church set ablaze, and today it stands in its majestic skeleton, rewilded by plant and animal … Read more
For Good Friday Wild Church made an epic five hour pilgrimage, based on an eco-feminist exploration of the Stations of the Cross. We started in the Lady Chapel at Staverton Church, gazing at Marco Donner’s lovely paintings of the Annunciation and the Nativity, which made a bittersweet beginning to a journey of reflection on Christ’s … Read more
Wild Church set off on its longest pilgrimage to date on the second Sunday of Lent. We started in traditional Church at Dartington which was appropriately austere and freezing cold and so we headed out into the early Spring sunshine with some relief, through Dartington woods and along the river back to Staverton. We passed … Read more