Wendy Weiger

Bio: Dr. Wendy Weiger is a former medical researcher who left the halls of academe for the wilds of northern Maine, where she became deeply involved in environmental advocacy. She is the author of Living Every Season: A Mindful Year in the Maine Woods, and is seeking a publisher for her next book, Heaven Beneath Our Feet: Finding God and Healing in the Wild. Her writing shows the importance of rekindling our intimacy with nature, both for our own health and the health of the Earth. Through her nonprofit, Achor Earth Ways, she offers programs that guide people into deeper, more joyful connection with the natural world. She currently divides her time between Maine and Idaho, where she is in discernment for the newly forming Saint Gertrude’s Koinonia Community and is working to expand eco-spirituality programming at the Center for Benedictine Life.

Events with Wendy Weiger

The Passion of the Earth: Living into the New Creation Story
April 25 - 27, 2025

We humans—along with every bird, every tree, every living being—are part of a vast web of creation that sustains us all. But we’re unraveling the web. We’ve been spending nature’s wealth as though it had no end. We who live on Earth today are on a cusp. The choices we make will determine the course of our planet for thousands—even millions—of years to come. What will we choose? Will we join in God’s dance of hope, healing, and new creation? Or will we continue down our current path of destruction? The Passion of the Earth is a project of artwork…