Podcasts & Conversations

Step into the conversation. Here you'll find Mary's conversations with hosts, teachers, spiritual seekers, and fellow explorers of the living Earth—on spiritual ecology, pilgrimage, rewilding, sacred storytelling, rites of passage, Celtic imagination, and what it means to belong to a living world.

FEATURED CONVERSATIONS
A few places to begin

Reimagining Our Place in the Landscape: Eco-Spirituality & Rewilding with Mary DeJong

Spiritual Ecologist and Eco-Theologian Mary DeJong explores how we can reconnect with the sacred Earth by rewilding our inner lives and remembering our belonging to the living world. Together, we explore Celtic traditions, creation-centered spirituality, the power of language and story, and the ways our understanding of divinity shapes our relationship with Earth. The conversation invites us to reimagine belonging, embrace change, and rediscover the sacredness of the world around us.

The Good Dirt Podcast 

Rewilding Our Souls with Mary DeJong

Mary DeJong explores what it means to rewild not only our outer landscapes, but the inner landscape of the soul—and how returning to wholeness and communion with the natural world can transform the stories we hold about God, ourselves, and our lives. This conversation invites us into the soulscape within, where reimagining our stories can open new possibilities for belonging, relationship, and a more beautiful way of being in the world.

Deconstruction Mamas
Earthkeepers: A Circlewood Podcast 

Earth Solidarity: Learning to Advocate for—and as—Creation | with Mary DeJong & Forest Inslee

Mary DeJong, founder of Waymarkers, explores how deepening our relationship with the sacred in all of creation can transform the way we understand ourselves and our place in the world. This conversation invites us to reimagine our worldview, move beyond the illusion of human separateness, and discover how a more intimate relationship with Earth can transform our approach to environmental advocacy and earthkeeping.

A collection of conversations about
the wild, the sacred, and what it means
to belong to this living Earth.

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Cultivating Our Wild Stories: CEIE Podcast with Mary DeJong

Mary DeJong explores how sacred stories can help us cultivate the wild soul and deepen our relationship with the living Earth. Drawing from eco-spirituality, place-based practice, and the power of story, she invites us to recover ways of seeing ourselves as part of a larger, sacred web of life.

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Rewilding & Journeying with Nature

Mary DeJong explores how nature can become a teacher and companion on the spiritual journey. Drawing from her practice of rewilding, she invites us to journey with the more-than-human world and discover the wisdom, guidance, and belonging that emerge when we pay attention to the living landscapes around us.

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Rewilding & Companioning the Earth (Part 2) with SDI & Mary DeJong

Mary DeJong and Spiritual Directors International explore how our relationships with the particular places we call home can become a source of spiritual wisdom, guidance, and connection with the Holy. She considers how place-based spiritual practice can help us companion the ecological grief and anxiety arising from environmental destruction while cultivating deeper listening, belonging, and relationship with the living Earth.

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Rewilding & Companioning the Earth (Part 1) with SDI & Mary DeJong

Mary DeJong and Spiritual Directors International explore how spiritual directors can create space for the Holy to speak through nature and the particular bioregions we call home. The conversation considers how place-based spiritual practice can help us attend to the sacred presence of the more-than-human world while meeting the ecological grief and anxiety arising from the destruction of our homescapes and Earth itself.

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The Language of Darkness & Light: Welcoming Solstice with Mary DeJong & Forest Inslee

Mary DeJong explores the spiritual significance of the winter solstice as an invitation to embrace seasonal change, darkness, and the wisdom of winter. From the language of light and dark to the rhythms of the turning Earth, she invites us to listen more deeply to what the natural world is speaking and discover what the changing seasons might have to teach us.

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Earth Solidarity: Learning to Advocate For-And As-Creation | with Mary DeJong & Forest Inslee

Mary DeJong, founder of Waymarkers, explores how deepening our relationship with the sacred in creation can transform the way we understand ourselves and our place within the living world. She invites us to move beyond a worldview of human separateness toward one of belonging and kinship—an essential shift that can transform how we approach environmental advocacy, earthkeeping, and our care for the places we call home.

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Rewilding Our Politics with Mary DeJong

Mary DeJong and Annie Mesaros explore what it might mean to rewild our politics by returning to relationship—with one another, with place, and with the living Earth. Drawing from eco-theology, spirituality, and the wisdom of the natural world, they consider how a more relational way of being can reshape how we understand community, responsibility, and collective change.

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Reimagining Our Place in the Landscape: Eco-Spirituality & Rewilding with Mary DeJong

Spiritual Ecologist and Eco-Theologian Mary DeJong presents her perspective on how we can each reconnect with the sacred Earth through rewilding our inner selves. DeJong works with Waymarkers, guiding others through retreats and pilgrimages, with an emphasis on placing Earth first in each decision we make. In this conversation we explore Celtic tradition and the primacy of creation, how the language we use shifts the various hierarchical ladders in our society, and the way that different spiritualities have more in common than we think. We discuss themes of change, belonging, the importance of reimagining our understanding of divinity in relation to the earth, and the power of stories and language in shaping human experience and perception of the natural world.

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Rewilding Our Souls with Mary DeJong

During a conversation with Reverend Kelsey Beebe, we explore the concept of rewilding our inner soulscapes and delved into spiritual theologies that have contributed world views of seperation. By reconnecting God with the planet and eliminating ideologies of division such a goal as world peace could be achieved! While this may sound ambitious, our conversation reflects a genuine belief in the possibilities of what could emerge with the imagination of a wild and rooted God!

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Rewilding Our Soul with Mary DeJong & Deconstruction Mamas

What if rewilding begins not with the landscape outside us, but with the landscape within? Mary DeJong explores the wild soul, our longing for wholeness and communion with the natural world, and how rewilding our stories can transform the ways we imagine God, ourselves, and our place in the living Earth.

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Apocalypse & Awakening with Mary DeJong

Mary DeJong shares her journey toward an Earth-based Christianity, exploring how Indigenous wisdom, Celtic spirituality, and a deeper awareness of the Divine can reshape our relationship with creation. Together, Mary and Chris explore apokalypsis as a revealing or uncovering, and imagine what an Earth-centered, flourishing future might look like.

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