Author: Elena Grice

  • The Theological Case for Rewilding

    The Theological Case for Rewilding

    By Dr. Rev. Clara Rushbrook

    So where does re-wilding fit into the Bible and to our faith. I would say that this is the thread that runs all the way through from Genesis and on into the New Testament and beyond.

  • Summary of the Rewild the Church Webinar

    Summary of the Rewild the Church Webinar

    The Rewild the Church webinar was very well-attended, with about 350 people joining us to see how we can drive forward this campaign into tangible outcomes.

  • Wild Card Visits Langholm

    Wild Card Visits Langholm

    The weekend after our action at St Paul’s Cathedral, most of the Wild Card team headed up to Langholm for a weekend to be together in person, without managing a large crowd and photographers, to dream into the future, and to gain inspiration from visiting the Tarras Valley Nature Reserve.

  • Rewild the Church Action!

    Rewild the Church Action!

    By Elena Grice

    We were blessed with the weather. Planning an action for October in London, and especially by the Thames was a potential disaster, but the sun was shining and the breeze light for our Rewild the Church action.

  • The Archbishop’s Response to Wild Card

    The Archbishop’s Response to Wild Card

    By Wild Card

    On the very day we marched to St Paul’s Cathedral, Archbishop Justin Welby issued this statement. We at Wild Card applaud the Archbishop’s clear and positive response to our campaign calling for 30% of Church land to be rewilded by 2030. We’re delighted that he “welcomes the initiative” and shares our concerns around biodiversity decline.…

  • Rewilding Christian Approaches to Ecological Issues

    Rewilding Christian Approaches to Ecological Issues

    By Peter Atkins

    The Christian tradition has often taken one particular biblical text as its guide for tackling ecological issues: Genesis 1:28. This passage’s divine instruction states that humans should “fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that…

  • WIld Service – Book review

    WIld Service – Book review

    By Elena Grice

    Once we start on this path of wild service, we find ourselves in reciprocity, receiving and giving in equal measure, coming into relationship with instead of domination and extraction of.

  • The people’s perambulation on Dartmoor

    The people’s perambulation on Dartmoor

    By Elena Grice, Wild Card Communities and Campaigns Lead

    At the end of April, we embarked on the People’s Perambulation, following in the footsteps of twelve mediaeval knights, centuries before us. In 1240, King Henry III ordered the knights to walk the border of the Royal Forest of Dartmoor, marking its boundary to exclude and dominate the peasants of the area.

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