Our next inclusive language & non-hierachical Evensong will be on Sunday 22nd March for the Annunciation (to Mother Mary). Scroll down below for more about our fourth Sunday Contemplative Christian Ceremonies Since our Wild Monastery settled at St Barnabas Church… Continue Reading …
All welcome to drop in on Nov 30th for our Lost Species Vigil, from 3-5pm, at Brooking Church. Wild Monastery and Wild Church have been observing Remembrance for Lost Species Day (30th November) every year for over a decade. This… 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 …
From January onwards new shoots continue to unfurl in our Wild Monastery and Wild Church, including the next steps of our new project at Brooking Church, Dartington. Events start with a launch party at the beginning of February, then ‘second… Continue Reading …
Folks contact me regularly to ask what our wild monastery and wild church is about and what is on offer. Well, it keeps emerging and as a creative person that’s what I find life giving. We are not an institution… Continue Reading …
As I write this, the world is reeling in the face of COVID-19. Here in the UK, on Monday the PM began the process of lock down, stressing the need for social distancing. Yesterday the Archbishops of Canterbury and York… Continue Reading …
During my time at Tassajara Zen Monastery in my twenties, I remember hearing a quote by its founder, Shunryu Suzuki. Now that I am in midlife, naturally I can’t remember it fully! But it was something along the lines of…… Continue Reading …
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