We can be helpers, we can be witnesses, we can refuse to give up.  While the fragile ceasefire is cause for some timid relief, we can’t look away. Action needs to be sustained.

To mark the 50th episode of Reseed, this episode will be a bit different: here are 50 actions for Gaza. 

Here are 50 actions to take—but the intent is to start with one action. This is meant to be helpful, after all, not overwhelming. This episode is is also not meant to be perfect or prescriptive, but rather a map to help guide us as helpers when we get overwhelmed by grief and despair. 

Actions are organized by learning, reflecting and discussing, in-person actions, donating, creating, advocating, caring, and praying or meditating.

Listeners can pause anytime and take the action, and come back to it when you need more ideas. Some actions might be right for you, while some might not. Fortunately, effective movements are made up of people each finding their own unique role. 

Whether you are an outspoken leader in this movement, or somewhat involved, or completely new and feeling out of place and uncomfortable: be a helper. 

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.