We had great plans for a storytelling pilgrimage on the first Sunday in October, which this year (2020) was also the Feast of Saint Francis and the final day of Creationtide, and yet the wind and rain had plans of their own! Not that Wild Church minds a bit of weather, but dragging dear Glynis … Read more
River Dart Wild Church – Core principles and practices After seven years of drawing upon and teaching these practices within River Dart Wild Church (and even longer within the other Wild Spirit groups), it seems time to articulate them in writing and share some written sources for those who wish to explore further… Peregrinatio – … Read more
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
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
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