About me

I’m Josh (or Joshua).

I'm an eco-chaplain and a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. I believe the loneliness we feel from each other and the estrangement we feel from the Earth are the same wound—and that mending one requires mending the other.

I started an eco-relational community in San Francisco, called WILD. I started it because I hoenstly I needed it, and sensed others might need it too. A place to gather on Sundays with people willing to slow down, get to know each other, and remember our kinship with the living world. No doctrine required. Just presence, curiosity, and the courage to be there for one another.

My thinking has been shaped by Robin Wall Kimmerer, John O'Donohue, C.G. Jung, Thomas Berry, Andreas Weber, and many others — all teachers who understood the Earth not as a backdrop to human life but as its very ground. I almost went to seminary twice. Turns out this is the community I was meant to build.

I live in San Francisco with my black cat, Liza.