A profound exploration of myth, storytelling and faith, and an urgent invitation to allow the oldest stories – and the Greatest Story – to reshape our own.

‘A rosary of soaring myth, gripping narrative and deep wisdom … one of the master storytellers of our time’ – Dr Gabor Maté, bestselling author of The Myth of Normal

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, cut off from the deep wells of story and meaning that once prepared us for life’s challenges.

Drawing on the ‘ancient technologies’ of myths and initiatory rites, Shaw invites readers to rediscover the ancient stories that shape the human soul – and to encounter Christ as the ultimate, transforming story providing a road to wholeness, maturity and connection, as he did.