Story pilgrimage with Clare and Francis

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

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

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

Hidden Holy Waters

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