The first Sunday of August saw our wild church back on pilgrimage again, for the second stage of the return to our signature ‘sea to source’ River Dart Way. This time we travelled by foot alongside the water rather than by canoe, as we journeyed from the Ham at Dittisham to the churchyard of St … Read more
After spending much of 2022 on our one year residency at St Barnabas Church (near Brooking, by the Bidwell Brook – a tributary of the Dart) what a blessing it was to return to our signature River Dart Way ‘sea to source’ pilgrimage. Over the nine years + of our wild church, since we began … Read more
Well, to paraphrase Robert Burns, ‘the best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ pilgrims, gang aft agley’… and plans for our group pilgrimage from Dittisham to Kingswear sadly did not work out as we hoped, due to health challenges experienced by both myself and our guide, local storyteller Helen Raphael Sands. The two of us had an … Read more
The first Sunday of October 2021 saw us back in Cornworthy churchyard, gathered in a circle with environmental social scientist, Dr Fiona Tilley. This was our first collaboration with Tilley and it was fascinating to receive insights she has distilled on contemporary indigenous ways from her work at Schumacher College and which she shared with … Read more
For Lammas on August 1st, Wild Church took to the water for our much loved canoe pilgrimage. Pilgrims converged from around Devon, at the Malsters Arms on Bow Creek at Tuckenhay, which is just down the way from our previous pilgrimage end point at Ashprington. Here our wonderful guide, Hugh from Canoe Adventures, soon had … Read more