Victoria Loorz

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Victoria Loorz
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Occupationsauthor, ecospiritual director, and co-founder of the Wild Church Network
OrganizationCenter for Wild Spirituality
Known forecospirituality, Wild Church
Notable workChurch of the Wild
ChildrenAlec Loorz, Olivia Loorz

Victoria Loorz is an author, ecospiritual director, and co-founder of the Wild Church Network.

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Career

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]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Moore, Peter (March 11, 2025). "Have a Spiritual Experience on These 4 Awe-Inspiring Hikes". Backpacker. Retrieved January 15, 2026.
  2. ↑ Neufeld, Josiah (September 10, 2021). "She felt disconnected from Christ. Nature helped her find meaning again". Broadview Magazine. Retrieved January 15, 2026.
  3. ↑ "Taking worship into the wild | UMNews.org". United Methodist News Service. Retrieved January 15, 2026.
  4. ↑ Nijhuis, Michelle (December 6, 2016). "The Teen-Agers Suing Over Climate Change". The New Yorker. ISSN   0028-792X . Retrieved January 15, 2026.
  5. ↑ Ellison, Katherine (May 9, 2012). "An Inconvenient Lawsuit: Teenagers Take Global Warming to the Courts". The Atlantic. Retrieved January 15, 2026.
  6. ↑ "Wild Church". Plough. December 8, 2021. Retrieved January 15, 2026.
  7. ↑ Hunter, Nathaniel (September 16, 2022). "What we're reading this month: October 2022". U.S. Catholic. Retrieved January 15, 2026.
  8. ↑ "Victoria Loorz | Climate One". www.climateone.org. Retrieved January 15, 2026.
  9. ↑ "A Fireside Chat with Victoria Loorz | The BTS Center" . Retrieved January 15, 2026.
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