St Barnabas and Sam are hugely excited to be hosting a wonderful, creative collective of queer folk who will be offering a Dartington Rural Pride event on the weekend of June 27-28th. See the posters below for more details and… Continue Reading …
Saturday 1st February, 2-5pm at St Barnabas Church, Brooking, Dartington (parking available) Drop in ‘high tea’ from 2-3.30pm & arrive/stay for ceremony at 3.30pm. A gentle get together to start our year in community & to celebrate the first signs of spring,… Continue Reading …
Update: since this post was written much has changed… again! As I write now, just over a year later, our hopes for a Scilly Wild Monastery have been let go. The property on St Agnes turned out to have significant… Continue Reading …
Wild Monastery and River Dart Wild Church have some good harvests to celebrate this autumn, in the form of an ever growing collection of offerings, gatherings and collaborations. See below for a cornucopia of this term’s dates, all gathered together… Continue Reading …
I concluded my ‘forty days in the wilderness’ during the second week of Eastertide. On Monday I left Edinburgh for Cumbria and then concluded my ‘monastery crawl’ in a Franciscan house (above) near Worcester, before arriving back in rural Devon… Continue Reading …
On Easter Monday I left the monastery on Unst and began my slow return journey to Devon. This would take me most of a fortnight, so I will divide it between two journal entries here. I also returned to posting… Continue Reading …
Following Palm Sunday I went into retreat for Holy Week, first on the remote Shetland Isle of Fetlar and then on the ‘most northerly’ monastery back on Unst. Below is a little a taste of this time, which lay at… Continue Reading …
I am sorry that it has taken longer than I hoped to return to this pilgrimage journal, but here at last is a glimpse of the last fortnight and a few reflections on Palm Sunday for today. I fell asleep… Continue Reading …
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