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Reflection, articles, poetry and meditations from our facilitators and community on the theme of the sacredness of nature.

"The world is now dominated by an animal that doesn't think its an animal. And the future is being imagined by an animal that doesn't want to be an animal. This matters."

Melanie Challenger

Nature well being Walk

Sunday 10th March 2024
Anne Watson

I'm co-chair of my organisation's staff Climate Action Group, and was excited to link up recently with our Wellbeing Network to lead a special lunchtime 'connect with nature' lunchtime walk. The…

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John Muir nature's prophet

Sunday 10th March 2024
Mike Mullins

John Muir (1838- 1914) is one of the great modern prophets of ecological sustainability. Born in the east Lothian coastal town of Dunbar, into a Calvinist family he moved with…

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St Francis a paragon of Soul Rewilding

Monday 26th February 2024
Rev Jonathan Herbert

Gratitude At Hilfield Friary, a Franciscan community nestling at the bottom of a chalk escarpment in rural Dorset, there lives an ancient tree we call the Gospel Oak. This mighty tree…

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Hildegard of Bingen

Monday 26th February 2024
Mike Mullins

"The earth is mother, she is the mother of all that is natural, mother of all that is human. She is the mother of all, for contained in her are…

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The language of nature

Monday 26th February 2024
Mike Mullins

I sat by the old Rowan tree in the evening gloaming. Blue dome arcing over the meadow. Birdsong rinsed and rung my heart. Distant laughter rode back in waves along the brook . Short of breath, fatigue…

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The ecological crisis and celtic Christianity

Thursday 1st February 2024
Mike Mullins

Mysticism the truth of direct experience We intuitively know things at the heart of our being that may be at odds with what we have been taught by authority, religion…

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The ecological crisis and Christianity

Tuesday 23rd May 2023
Mike Mullins

"The world we are told was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished wherever they find…

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