Victoria Loorz

Victoria Loorz
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.

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 (2025-03-11). "Have a Spiritual Experience on These 4 Awe-Inspiring Hikes". Backpacker. Retrieved 2026-01-15.
  2. ^ Neufeld, Josiah (2021-09-10). "She felt disconnected from Christ. Nature helped her find meaning again". Broadview Magazine. Retrieved 2026-01-15.
  3. ^ "Taking worship into the wild | UMNews.org". United Methodist News Service. Retrieved 2026-01-15.
  4. ^ Nijhuis, Michelle (2016-12-06). "The Teen-Agers Suing Over Climate Change". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2026-01-15.
  5. ^ Ellison, Katherine (2012-05-09). "An Inconvenient Lawsuit: Teenagers Take Global Warming to the Courts". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2026-01-15.
  6. ^ "Wild Church". Plough. 2021-12-08. Retrieved 2026-01-15.
  7. ^ Hunter, Nathaniel (2022-09-16). "What we're reading this month: October 2022". U.S. Catholic. Retrieved 2026-01-15.
  8. ^ "Victoria Loorz | Climate One". www.climateone.org. Retrieved 2026-01-15.
  9. ^ "A Fireside Chat with Victoria Loorz | The BTS Center". Retrieved 2026-01-15.
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