In this episode Forrest talks with Victoria Loorz, cofounder of the Wild Church Network, a broad association of religious communities that practice faith life in ways that foster connectedness to all of creation. Victoria also helped start the Seminary of the Wild, an experiential education and formation program for spiritual leaders seeking to pioneer new earth-centered faith practices. In this conversation we talk with her about her forthcoming book, Church of the Wild: How Nature Invites Us into the Sacred.
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Guest: Victoria Loorz—co-founder of Wild Church Network and Seminary of the Wild
New Book : Church of the Wild: How Nature invites us into the Sacred
Mentions:
Thomas Berry - cultural historian & religions scholar
Howard Thurman - theologian & mystic
Thurman quote
Ecological Disciple blog
Dr. Josh Packard - Nones & Dones - website: Dechurched
Forest Church - UK
Agrarian church - Episcopal
Holy hikes
Paschal mystery - definition
Robin Wall Kimmerer - author of Braiding Sweetgrass; quote:"even a wounded world heals us"
Keywords: Forest Church, Nones and Dones, Nature as Revelation, ecotheology, seminary, unchurched, Seminary of the Wild, Wild Church, kindom, indigenous theology
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