Peace Pilgrimage 1 – written by our guide, Jamie Emmerson, with landscape/church photos by Sam Starting at Sugary Cove, as shown here, the first River Dart Wild Church “sea to source” pilgrimage of 2026 wound its way up the headland and into Dartmouth, across the Dart itself, and back again. The theme for the walk … 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
Life continued to be a challenge for many, myself included, as 2021 drew towards a close. I was still unwell and semi destitute, following a long period of stress and unfunded overwork in the Church of England, which had led me to withdraw from Anglican ordination training in late August. So, as with our November … 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
