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.
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On our first episode of the Holy Wild, Victoria speaks with producer Stephen about the vision for the podcast. Victoria shares her answers to the questions we intend to ask every guest, including "tell me about the land that raised you?" and "what's a recent experience you've had with the holy and wild?" They also introduce elements of the podcast like the invitation to you at the end of each episode, as well as the Sacred Conversation segment to feature your stories and encounters.
46:44 Sacred Conversation: Stephen and Prairie Falcon
49:30 Credits
Indigenous Worldview Can Preserve Our Existence with Four Arrows (Don Trent Jacobs)
Season 1
Saturday, April 19, 2025 • Duration 52:25
In this moving episode of The Holy Wild, Victoria Loorz is joined by Four Arrows (Don Trent Jacobs)—Cherokee author, scholar, and Lakota pipe carrier—for a profound conversation centered on reclaiming a kinship-based worldview. Drawing from Indigenous wisdom, never-before-told personal vision stories, and decades of advocacy, Four Arrows shares how restoring sacred relationship with the Earth begins with shifting our deepest ways of seeing and being. May this conversation serve as a powerful reminder that Indigenous worldviews hold essential guidance for healing our fractured relationship with the more-than-human world.
Quote: "“We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and New Testament, to be impositions, fables and forgeries.” by Thomas Paine in The Age of Reason
In this episode of The Holy Wild, Victoria Loorz speaks with author and public theologian Brian McLaren about how to live with love, courage, and imagination in the midst of ecological and societal collapse. Rooted in McLaren’s latest book, Life After Doom, their conversation invites us into a deeper spirituality that faces reality without losing hope. Together, they explore how grief, beauty, and small communities of care can become seeds of transformation. It’s a moving, grounded dialogue for anyone longing to walk a path of love—no matter what unfolds.
Kincentric Leadership: The Unlearning And Emergence Of A New Kind Of Spiritual Leader with Justine Afra Huxley
Season 1
Saturday, May 3, 2025 • Duration 49:44
In this moving conversation, Victoria Loorz and Justine Afra Huxley explore kincentric leadership as both an unlearning and an emergence — a return to sacred relationship with Earth and a new way of living as spiritual leaders. Drawing from Sufi tradition, spiritual ecology, and deep listening to the more-than-human world, Justine invites us into a future shaped by kinship, reverence, and co-creation.
Re-Enchanting the World Through Relationship with Brother Coyote (Gary Paul Nabhan)
Season 1
Saturday, May 31, 2025 • Duration 53:10
In this profound conversation, Victoria Loorz is joined by ethnobotanist, Franciscan brother, and spiritual ecologist Gary Paul Nabhan—also known as Brother Coyote—exploring themes of cultural and spiritual resistance, sacred relationship with the land, and the transformative power of remembering ancient ways. Gary shares stories of his time with Indigenous communities, his recent recovery from a traumatic head injury, and his hope for agrarian sanctuaries in a time of ecological and societal collapse. Inviting us into a re-enchanted worldview grounded in interconnection, reverence, and resilience and concluding with a poetic practice of naming the relationships in the natural world, reorienting us toward wonder and communion.
What Is Church of the Wild? with Valerie Luna Serrels
Season 1
Saturday, June 14, 2025 • Duration 01:00:55
In this episode of The Holy Wild, Victoria Loorz speaks with her sister and co-author, Valerie Luna Serrels, about the transformative movement of Wild Church. Together they explore how sacred relationship with Earth is being rekindled through embodied spiritual practice, intentional community, and the reclamation of ancient ways of knowing. They reflect on the Field Guide to Church of the Wild, a book they co-wrote to support this growing network, and share insights into the shift from dominance to kinship as a core spiritual calling.
Celtic Wisdom for Reconnecting with Place with Seán Ó Gaoithín
Season 1
Saturday, July 5, 2025 • Duration 01:17:48
In this episode of The Holy Wild, Victoria Loorz speaks with Sean Ó Gaoithín, the lead gardener at Glenveagh National Park, Irish forest-tender and a third-level Hedge Druid, about his journey of ecological restoration, ancestral reconnection, and spiritual practice. They share how sacred relationship with land is remembered through language, biodiversity, and embodied gestures like Gaia Touch. Together, they explore insights on rewilding efforts in Donegal, the ancient Celtic festivals, declaring peace with nature through prayerful movement, and how despair and hope can both be holy as we return to sacred kinship with Earth.
Remembering The World As Lover and As Self with Joanna Macy (In Memoriam)
Season 1
Saturday, August 9, 2025 • Duration 48:58
In memory of Joanna Macy, we offer this recording from a Seminary of the Wild gathering where she spoke with radiant clarity about living through collapse with courage and love. She outlines four ancient ways of seeing the world—battlefield, trap, lover, and self—and invites us into the radical intimacy of belonging to a living Earth as lover and self. With humor and grace, she tells a story from Cosmicomics by Italian author Italo Calvino, in which the universe begins not with a bang, but with a generous offer to make pasta.
04:53 Joanna Macy begins—gratitude, interdependence, and uncertainty
What We are Learning from the Holy Wild about Spiritual Companionship with Deb Metzger and Elizabeth Rechter
Season 1
Saturday, July 26, 2025 • Duration 57:08
What does it mean to listen with the Holy Wild? In this episode, Victoria Loorz is joined by Elizabeth Rechter and Deb Metzger—two seasoned spiritual companions and guides in the Eco-Spiritual Direction program from Seminary of the Wild Earth. Together they reflect on the sacred practice of holy listening in partnership with the more-than-human world, sharing stories of reciprocity, grief, and transformation that emerge from deep relationship with Earth. The conversation is both an invitation and a reminder: the wild trusts us, and in return, we are called to trust the holy within and all around us.
17:46 Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI)
20:09 A Gardener Hopes For Eden
25:01 Hope and Despair are both Holy
26:06 Invasive Species
28:45 Gaia Touch Earth Yoga
31:34 Transmitters and Receivers
34:43 The Fairies of Particular Places
40:48 Declaring Peace
43:51 Weeds Are Part of Biodiversity
47:44 Generational Shift
50:49 Sean's Druid Journey
54:41 Order of Bards Ovates and Druids
57:36 Celtic Annual Cycle
60:54 The 7 Directions
66:37 Being Drawn Home
71:16 Sacred Invitation
73:32 Ethan and Cherry Tree
76:43 Outro
11:31 Choosing how to rebuild: worldview as a tool
12:42 World as battlefield
16:38 World as trap
20:33 World as lover and world as self—belonging to a living world
24:17 The Cosmicomics story: love, pasta, and the birth of the universe
31:30 Transition from lover to self—nonduality and the ecological self
33:00 Thich Nhat Hanh on evolutionary belonging
35:00 Letting the Earth act through us—John Seed’s rainforest story
38:30 Question session on deepening into intimacy
45:41 Weekly wandering invitation: “What can I do for you?”
47:38 Closing invitation and credits
31:30 The Wild Share Her Pain Too
34:36 A Deconstruction The Culture That Has Incarcerated Us
37:30 The Non-Judging Wild
40:56 The Wild Trusts You
41:43 You May Feed The Birds By Hand
43:13 The Wind Speaks Of Suffering
47:03 Meaning In and From Relationship
49:18 The Playful Wild
51:59 Invitation
53:23 Valarie and a circle of Blue Violets
55:59 Outro
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