Victoria Loorz | |
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| Occupations | author, ecospiritual director, and co-founder of the Wild Church Network |
| Organization | Center for Wild Spirituality |
| Known for | ecospirituality, Wild Church |
| Notable work | Church of the Wild |
| Children | Alec Loorz, Olivia Loorz |
Victoria Loorz is an author, ecospiritual director, and co-founder of the Wild Church Network.
Victoria Loorz started her work as a minister, who increasingly found herself connecting to the natural world in a way that seemed counter to the congregational expectations. [1] Leaving institutional Christianity, she co-founded the Wild Church Network, an informal, global community of people who celebrate the divine through gathering outdoors in natural settings. [2] [3]
After helping her son Alec Loorz in his teen-age crusade against climate change [4] [5] and her grassroots efforts develop and support wild churches, [6] Victoria went on to write the Church of the Wild, a text that challenged institutional religion which separated humanity from nature. [7]
Loorz continues to write and develop her work on human connections and kindship with the natural world through the Center for Wild Spirituality and the Seminary of the Wild Earth. [8] [9]