Lenten Lands & Wild Church 2025

Starting this Saturday!

Mar 04, 2025

“There are no unsacred places;

there are only sacred places and desecrated places.”

-Wendell Berry

In these troubled times, it is vitally necessary that we build community, connect with the land, and find paths towards healing. This Lent we’re going to embrace repair by seeking the beautiful and blighted: to find the sacred in all lands. These gatherings are situated within the “lengthening of days” (literally, Lent) as a time for community, listening, hope, pruning, prayer, discipline, lament, resistance, song, and a meditation on our place within the community of Creation.

Outdoors. Saturdays, 3-4:30pm. In and around Dubuque, Iowa. Bring a chair.

(See below the flyer for the 2025 Wild Church calendar)

March 8: On the Mississippi River near the Shot Tower

March 15: Proving Grounds Recreation Area Pavilion

March 22 (Spring Equinox): Casper Bluff Land & Water Reserve (Galena, IL)

March 29: Rescue Mission Garden

April 5: Near the Julien Dubuque Monument

April 12: Platteville Mound (base of the hill for accessibility purposes)

Thanks for the lovely artwork and flyer from Allyson Winter!