The Holy Wild with Victoria Loorz

Join author and founder of the Center for Wild Spirituality, Victoria Loorz, as she explores the possibilities of restoring beloved community and sacred conversation with All That Is: human and more-than-human.

The Holy Wild with Victoria Loorz is a religion podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 35 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  The Gospel of Trees with Dr. Thomas Arentzen

  Aug 8, 202651 minS2

  In this conversation, Victoria Loorz speaks with Dr. Thomas Arentzen, a Norwegian author and docent in Church History at Lund University, whose work uncovers a forgotten Christian tradition where trees, birds, and the more-than-human world were understood not as the backdrop to human salvation, but as active participants in the sacred life of creation. Thomas specializes in ecological perspectives in (and on) the Christian world, and is the author of the newly released The Gospel of Trees . Together, they explore the mysterious dendrites, early Christian monks who lived in trees, along with saints praying alongside cypresses, birds singing hymns to God, and ancient visions of all creation joined in a cosmic liturgy. Recovering our kinship with the living world, Thomas shares, is not something new but a return to Christianity's own roots. Faith becomes not something practiced apart from creation, but a way of belonging within a community of life where all beings share in the praise of God. Connect with Thomas: Website: sanktignatios.org/dr-thomas-arentzen Book: The Gospel of Trees by Thomas Arentzen Book: Byzantine Tree Life: Christianity and the Arboreal Imagination by Thomas Arentzen, Virginia Burrus & Glenn Peers Mentioned in the episode: Film: Silent Friend Book: The Overstory by Richard Powers Film: Disclosure Day Individual: Margaret Wheatley Organization: Mystical Theology Network Organization: Dumbarton Oaks Garden Book: Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard Book: The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben Wiki: Saint Christina the Astonishing Book: Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods by Julia "Butterfly" Hill Mark 8:22-25 Jesus Heals a Blind Man at Bethsaida Connect with the Center: Website: wildspirituality.earth Victoria's Website: victorialoorz.com Email: hello@wildspirituality.earth Linktree: linktr.ee/ctrforwildspirituality Instagram: @center_for_wild_spirituality Timestamps: 00:00 - Introduction 05:28 - Interview Begins 08:05 - The Pull To Place 10:27 - Christianity's Relationship with Trees 15:05 - Synchronicity of Emerging Fields 17:16 - The Dendrites 23:26 - Is Religion Only A Human Enterprise? 27:27 - The Worldview of Kin and Neighbor 36:47 - Countering Many Fundamentalisms 39:20 - Shifting Attention 44:08 - Drawn Next to the Birds 46:15 - Wild Invitation 49:23 - Credits

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  Jesus Dissolving into the Earth: Rewilding Christianity with Rev. Dr. Lisa Dahill

  Jul 25, 202653 minS2

  In this conversation, Victoria Loorz speaks with the Rev. Dr. Lisa Dahill, Director of the Center for Transformative Spirituality at Hartford International University . Lisa is a eco-theologian and internationally recognized Bonhoeffer scholar, whose work explores what becomes possible when the walls between God and world begin to dissolve. After years teaching worship and liturgy within seminary walls, an encounter with fresh bear tracks in the snow transformed not only Lisa's relationship with the living world, but her understanding of Christianity itself. Together, they explore Bonhoeffer's provocative claim that God and world are not two realities but one. Lisa, author of the forthcoming Jesus in the Earth: Rewilding Christian Spirituality , offers a radical vision of faith, not as escape from the world, but as a way of inhabiting reality more fully. Connect with Lisa: Email: ldahill@hartfordinternational.edu Website: Hartford International University for Religion & Peace Yale Article (pdf): Rewilding Christian Spirituality: Outdoor Sacraments and the Life of the World Book: Reading From The Underside of Selfhood: Bonhoeffer and Spiritual Formation Book: Eco-Reformation: Grace and Hope for a Planet in Peril Book: Truly Present: Practicing Prayer in the Liturgy Website: Google Scholar Collection Mentioned in the episode: Holy Wild Episode: Awakening a Forest Sense: Grief, Mystery, and the Reformation of Faith with Michael Ellick Connect with the Center: Website: wildspirituality.earth Victoria's Website: victorialoorz.com Email: hello@wildspirituality.earth Linktree: linktr.ee/ctrforwildspirituality Instagram: @center_for_wild_spirituality Timestamps: 00:00 – Introduction 04:10 – Interview Begins 06:21 – The Land Who Raised Lisa 08:23 – The Bear 09:23 – "Suddenly I Am the Bear" 11:27 – Jesus Dissolving 13:47 – Horizontal Transcendence 16:57 – Bonhoeffer 18:13 – There's Only One Reality 23:42 – It's Time for Christianity to Evolve 29:06 – Creating Wild Sanctuary 32:38 – Courage to Be Honest 35:36 – A Change in Leadership 37:51 – Predation 41:24 – Resurrection 47:07 – Programs at HIU 49:36 – Wild Invitation 51:36 – Credits

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  Sacred Listening and the Art of Seeing the Other with Daniel Epstein

  Jul 11, 202651 minS2

  In this conversation, Victoria Loorz speaks with Daniel K. Epstein, photographer, author, and founder of Portraits in Faith , a twenty-six-year project of environmental portraiture and spiritual interviews spanning 500 people across 30 countries. Portraits in Faith is a traveling exhibit, a process of conversation-ing with people very different than you, and a nonprofit committed to sacred listening which leads to a conscious understanding that there is no "other." Daniel has devoted his life to asking people how they encounter mystery, meaning, doubt, love, and the sacred. His work demonstrates how sacred listening itself can become a practice of healing in a polarized world. Daniel reflects on growing up Jewish in the American South, the personal crisis that cracked open his understanding of faith, and the questions that have guided hundreds of conversations across cultures and traditions. Victoria and Daniel sit with the tension between the particular and the universal, what the wild teaches us about trust and belonging, and why learning to truly see one another may be one of the most vital spiritual practices of our time. Connect with Daniel: Website: portraitsinfaith.org Youtube: @portraitsinfaith Exhibit Info: portraitsinfaith.org/exhibit Mentioned in the episode: Portraits In Faith Interview with James Finley: God Is All and All Is Love Retreat Center: Ghost Ranch Book: The Coming of the Cosmic Christ by Matthew Fox Book: The Universal Christ by Richard Rohr Organization: The Center for Action and Contemplation Musical Artist: Netanel Goldberg (Spotify) Book: The Death of the Mythic God by Jim Marion Connect with the Center: Website: wildspirituality.earth Victoria's Website: victorialoorz.com Email: hello@wildspirituality.earth Linktree: linktr.ee/ctrforwildspirituality Instagram: @center_for_wild_spirituality Timestamps: 00:00 – Introduction 04:07 – Interview Begins 07:12 – The Calling Behind Portraits in Faith 11:34 – The Portraits in Faith Format 16:19 – Going Beyond "The Other" 17:53 – Warmth and Competence 19:15 – The Particular and the Universal 23:57 – Portraits in Faith 29:05 – Sacred Listening 34:12 – Dialogue Across Exclusive Truth Claims 40:16 – Beholding the Other with Wisdom 45:09 – What Gives You Hope? 48:13 – Wild Invitation 49:50 – Credits

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  Wild Water, Holy Porosity, and Becoming the Flow with Dr. Jean Golicz

  Jun 20, 20261 hourS2

  In this conversation, Victoria Loorz speaks with Jean Golicz, Ed.D., retreat leader, writer, wild swimmer, and Seminary of the Wild Earth graduate whose doctoral research explores how place shapes our relationship with the holy. Raised in a Celtic family of fishermen and swimmers along the waters of Connecticut, Jean spent a lifetime near water—yet it wasn't until her year in the Seminary of the Wild Earth cohort invited her into relationship with a particular beloved that water became not simply a place to swim, but a teacher, guide, and spiritual practice. Together, they trace Jean's path from competitive swimmer to cold-water pilgrim, from bridge builder to portal, and from going with the flow to becoming it. Cold water, she discovered, made her porous—permeable to the living world in ways she hadn't expected, and to the costs of transformation: the relationships that can't survive the person you're becoming, and the grace of learning, after a lifetime of rescuing, to simply witness and hold. At its heart, this episode explores what becomes possible when we stop standing beside the flow of life and allow ourselves to become part of it. Listen to the full conversation for a special discount code for the upcoming September Seminary of the Wild Earth journey . Curious to learn more? Join Victoria for one of the final discernment calls on Wednesday, June 24 at 12pm PT and experience the pulse of the cohort for yourself, or book a 1:1 conversation with a guide here. Mentioned in the episode: Book: On the Mystery Discerning Divinity in Process by Catherine Keller Paper: Solastalgia: the distress caused by environmental change by Glenn Albrecht Connect with the Center: Website: wildspirituality.earth Victoria's Website: victorialoorz.com Email: hello@wildspirituality.earth Linktree: linktr.ee/ctrforwildspirituality Instagram: @center_for_wild_spirituality Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 05:21 Interview Begins 07:30 The Theological Calling 09:47 Ingesting Nature As Transformative Theology 12:34 Cold Water Swimming 15:53 A Way Other Than Competition 17:24 Interpersonal Challenge to Worldview Shift 19:15 Sacred Yes and Sacred No 20:06 Seminary Experience 24:49 Seminary Language 27:25 Bridges and Portals 31:48 Flow and Feminine 34:06 A Space Free of Judgment 37:26 A Space Full of Safety 39:15 Inherent Discomfort 41:12 Routine, Ritual, and Rhythm 43:49 All Ages 47:15 Solastalgia 49:33 The Loss Is Part of The Beauty 52:16 Informed Invitation to Intervention 56:04 Awakening Is Happening 57:57 Wild Invitation 59:20 Credits

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  Grief, Song, and Multi-Species liberation with Alexandra "ahlay" Blakely

  Jun 6, 202651 minS2

  <p>In this conversation, Victoria Loorz speaks with Alexandra "ahlay" Blakely, singer-songwriter, communal grief tender, and community organizer, and the creator of WAILS: Songs for Grief, an album recorded with 200 voices entirely dedicated to grief, inspired by whales and Francis Weller's five gates of grief. Drawing from the lineages of movement song, Dagara grief ritual, and a lifelong relationship with whales, Alexandra has spent years developing her practice at the intersection of collective mourning, ancestral remembrance, and the emerging movement for the rights of nature.</p><p>Together, they explore what it means to grieve what we love as an...

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