The Wilderness Way Community

“Re-wilding Christianity”

Guided by the wisdom of Nature,

the undomesticated Jesus and his movement,

and the wilderness tradition in which Jesus was grounded,

 we are a practicing-faith community

walking the Wilderness Way,

discovering

wisdom for our time,

healing for ourselves and our planet, and

the power of untamable (resurrection!) life!

This is how we are walking the Wilderness Way today…

As a community:

We engage in spiritual-social practices rooted in “wilderness wisdom” – the shared wisdom of the scriptural wilderness tradition and the wilderness itself: Sabbath, Jubilee and Shalom.

In community:

We create alternative, “wilderness” spaces within the context of empire in which to resist its domesticating and death-dealing influence, and to discover the wisdom, healing and power we seek.

We ground ourselves in the liberating spiritual-social practices of the Jesus movement and the wilderness tradition from which it grew through regular study of scripture.

We ground ourselves in the wisdom, healing and power of the earth through regular immersion in and re-connection with nature.

We seek to uncover and recover from our patterns of individual and collective domestication.

We open up creative space in which to “re-wild” (un-tame) the language, ritual, prayer, song, sacraments and movements of the church.

In partnership with other communities:

We seek to walk the Wilderness Way with others and “re-wild Christianity” through collective public action, teaching, mentoring, training, retreats, relationships, and sharing of resources.