Description

From Victoria Loorz, author of Church of the Wild, and Valerie Luna Serrels, spiritual guide and wild-church leader, comes a nurturing companion book for anyone yearning to reconnect their spirituality with the living natural world.

Field Guide to Church of the Wild invites readers into a vibrant movement dedicated to restoring sacred relationships with the Earth. In this thoughtfully compiled resource filled with stories, rituals, and practical advice, each page draws us into experiences of prayer and mountains, reverent rituals and wrens, community gatherings and forests.

More than simply a new way of worshipping outdoors or declaring nature as your sanctuary, Church of the Wild expands beyond traditional religious boundaries and institutions. Whether practiced alone or shared spiritually with others, it offers gentle guidance on how to rewild your spiritual practices, whatever your own spiritual background or heritage.

Loorz, founder of the Center for Wild Spirituality, and Serrels, director of the Wild Church Network, lovingly welcome us into diverse landscapes and vibrant wild-church communities, introducing leaders and participants—both human and beyond-human—at the heart of this global network. Drawing upon the collective wisdom of hundreds of wild-church communities flourishing around the world, the authors help readers discover inspiration and courage to invite their own groups of friends to explore wild spirituality together. You will learn profoundly meaningful eco-spiritual practices designed to honor the sacred presence you already sense within nature.

Each chapter provides thoughtful stories and practices commonly shared among wild-church communities, including grounding exercises, thoughtful land acknowledgments, liturgies, prayers, prompts for solo contemplative walks, and techniques for reverently listening—both to the land around you and to one another.

Bring this illuminating Field Guide with you into the fields, forests, and wild edges of the places you call home. Become part of an emerging yet ancient spiritual practice, reconnecting deeply and intimately with your sacred place in a living, interconnected, and holy Earth.