This is a conversation about discovering sacredness and deconstructing empire.

Church of the Wild brings nature, spirituality, and reverence together, regardless of specific religion. But many of us, despite feeling a spirituality in nature, are out of practice with prayer and have lost sacredness in our daily lives. 

This episode of Reseed is a conversation about how to find sacredness, and how doing so is a rejection of empire building, patriarchy, and violence. As sacred creatures, humans can build refugia: havens of growth in the midst of unstable terrain.

Guest Victoria Loorz is a wild church pastor, an eco-spiritual director and co-founder of several transformation-focused organizations focused on the integration of nature and spirituality. After twenty years as a pastor of indoor churches, she launched the first Church of the Wild, and is the author of Church of the Wild: How Nature Invites Us into the Sacred. 

Listen to hear more about how—at a moment where almost nothing is sacred—to find sacredness in our lives and in our wild world. 

Modernity lets us be comfortable in isolation, and can make it difficult for us to turn towards nature and community. Many of us struggle with mental health challenges like anxiety and depression—and nature can help us heal. It can be helpful to see how our brains and internal worlds are a worthy part of the natural world.

Author Jarod K. Anderson joins Reseed for a conversation about letting go of shame, finding worth, balancing courage with care—and going to wild places with no agenda.