Process Pop-Up: Wild Church: Communal Practices to Reconnect Spirituality and Nature

Thursday, August 7 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT
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In this experiential webinar, author, wild church pastor, and eco-spiritual guide Victoria Loorz invites participants into a sacred remembering: that we belong to a living, speaking world—and that spirituality is not an escape from Earth, but a return to it. Drawing from the relational theology of her book Church of the Wild and her leadership within the Seminary of the Wild and Wild Church Network, Victoria will offer an introduction to communal practices that dissolve the false divide between the sacred and the natural.

Grounded in process theology’s vision of an evolving, inter-relational cosmos, this hour will include stories, teachings, and practical invitations to rewild spirituality in relationship with place, community, and the Holy Presence at the heart of creation. Participants will be guided through a taste of Terra Divina, a contemplative practice of listening to Earth as sacred text, and reflect on how communal ritual can support a theology of mutual becoming.

This gathering is for anyone curious about how spiritual community can root itself in the wild, relational processes of life, and how spiritual leadership might emerge not just from pulpits, but from trees, rivers, grief, wonder, and belonging.

 

“Beyond caring for creation or stewarding Earth’s ‘resources,’ what we need is to invest in actual relationships with particular places and beings of the living world. Only a restored intimacy can provide the embodied, rooted foundation for transformation. The global shift necessary to actually survive the crises we’ve created depends on a deep inner change. It depends on our remembering how to fall in love.“

Victoria Loorz, Church of the Wild: How Nature Invites Us into the Sacred

Church of the Wild - How Nature Invites Us into the Sacred

Field Guide to Church of the Wild

About the Speaker

 

Victoria Loorz

Victoria Loorz
Victoria Loorz, MDiv, is a writer, spiritual guide, and wild theologian whose work emerges at the convergence of process thought, ecological consciousness, and sacred activism. As founder of the Center for Wild Spirituality and host of The Holy Wild podcast, she midwives a movement of spiritual rewilding—supporting leaders and seekers who long to restore sacred intimacy with the more-than-human world. Victoria also initiated the Wild Church Network, a growing web of communities that gather outdoors in reverence and reciprocal relationship with Earth as sacred. Her books, Church of the Wild: How Nature Invites Us into the Sacred and Field Guide to Church of the Wild, reimagine church as a participatory, incarnational communion with a living, dynamic world. She lives now on the ancestral lands of the Suquamish people—among cedar trees, tides, and the teachings of otters—where she continues to listen for the voice of the Holy Wild.
 

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