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
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 the first of our autumn pilgrimages on Sunday September 5th, we were delighted to be guided by Isabel Carlisle who is co-founder of the Bioregional Learning Centre, which is working for climate resilience in South Devon. She initiated the Charter for the River Dart that gives the river moral rights and which we are carrying with us … Read more