One Sunday evening, Sam and I (Beth) were walking on the moors with my parents who were visiting for the weekend. We’d gone to church together that morning, followed by a long roast lunch, and we were now walking around Hound Tor into the dusk. I said to Sam “I’d love to do this with … Read more
Through the changing seasons of nature and spirit that we circle within Wild Church, we each have our own unfolding inner seasons, both through the journey of our natural life as embodied beings and in the shifting feelings and unfoldings of the soul. For myself (Sam) I’m in the late summer or early autumn of … Read more
Easter was a little unexpected this year! Wild Church got off to a great start with a Wild Wisdom Community Day in Exeter on Palm Sunday which was on the Spring Equinox this year, where we were due to join a local contemplative group in some singing. The trickster spirit was immediately in evidence as … Read more
March was a full month in the seasons of the spirit this year, with Wild Church celebrating Mothers Day on the first Sunday and journeying through Holy Week to the Easter as March drew to a close. I still vividly remember our Wild Mothers Day, as we wandered through the still sleeping oaks and the … Read more
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