All welcome at Brooking Church from 2-5pm on Sunday 1st February. Please read the details below. Donations invited to help cover costs… So here’s the plan for my 60th birthday and our St Brigid’s Day celebrations this Sunday afternoon – to which you are all invited! It’s helpful to know whom to expect, if possible. Please bring seasonal, … Read more
The Twelve Days of Christmastide, including New Year 2021 saw the UK move back into lockdown, which was not at all the new beginning that many of us had been hoping for, but it seemed a necessary response to the ongoing challenges of the global covid pandemic. Like many people, I was not able to … Read more
Beech Cathedrals & Woodland Elders By wild&curious Last Sunday I had the privilege of leading a Beech tree pilgrimage in Dartington, part of the Wild Church year of tree pilgrimages. As we began our journey we held both the lightness and warmth of the sunshine alongside the darkness of loss close to some of our … Read more
I’d like to begin this blog post by returning to the notion of ‘pilgrimage’, so as to re-enliven it and re-centre it at the heart of Wild Church. For me, to pilgrimage is to journey with intention and wakefulness, curiosity and wonder. “As pilgrims we learn to celebrate the beauty and the bounty of the … Read more