Join writer, mythographer and Christian thinker Dr Martin Shaw discussing 'Liturgies of the Wild' with Sir Mark Rylance & Dr Rowan Williams.

ABOUT ‘LITURGIES OF THE WILD’:

There’s an old Irish belief that if you aren’t wrapped in a cloak of story you will be unprepared for what the world will hurl at you. You remain adolescent at just the moment a culture worth its salt requires you to become a real, grown, human being.

In ‘Liturgies of the Wild’, acclaimed mythographer, storyteller and Christian thinker Martin Shaw argues that we live in a myth-impoverished age and that such poverty has left us vulnerable to stories that may not wish us well. Drawing on the “ancient technologies” of myths and initiatory rites, Shaw provides a road to wholeness, maturity and connection. He teaches us to read a myth the way it wants to be read; provides vivid retellings of tales powerful enough to carry you through life’s travails; and shows you how to gather and reshape your own thrown-away stories. Most vividly, he shares how these ancient technologies led him – unexpectedly - to Christ, ‘the True Myth’, by way of a 30-year journey and a 101-night vigil in a Dartmoor forest.

Combining scholarly erudition with nimble storytelling in the tradition of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, ‘Liturgies of the Wild’ is a thrilling counsel of resistance and delight in the face of many modern monsters.

Dr Martin Shaw is a New York Times bestselling author, mythographer and thinker. He’s Visiting Scholar at the Divinity Faculty of Cambridge University, and a Fellow of the Temenos Academy. Author of seventeen books, Dr Shaw is the director of the Westcountry School of Myth and founder of the Oral Tradition and Mythic Life courses at Stanford University

Sir Mark Rylance is an Oscar winning actor, playwright and theatre director. One of the great storytellers of our time, he has embodied many seminal roles: from Thomas Cromwell to Jerusalem’s Rooster Byron to the Big Friendly Giant. His influence on British theatre is immense, and he continues to delight with the roles he both chooses and creates.

Dr Rowan Williams is a Welsh Anglican bishop, theologian, and poet who served as the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury from 2002 to 2012.