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A New Coat for a Venerable Tree
May 12, 2021A beautiful 140-year-old hemlock at the artist Frederic Church’s estate and museum, Olana, in Hudson, New York, died a few months ago of natural causes. Jean Shin, a sculptor who specializes in using cast-off objects …
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The Beauty of Wounded Places
May 5, 2021When we say a place is wounded, we mean it can no longer do what it once did. It is disabled. It’s a force of life that has fallen on hard times and is struggling …
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Gifts in the Promised Land
May 11, 2020The Jordan River, a geographical icon of religion, song, promise, and African American history, is, in truth, a wounded river. Trebbe Johnson was part of a pilgrimage to explore the wounds of the river and …
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Conversation between Francis Weller & Trebbe Johnson
April 16, 2020A conversation with Trebbe Johnson and Francis Weller In the fall of 2018, authors Trebbe Johnson and Francis Weller initiated a conversation that we anticipated would be rich, unexpected, and offer something vital to our …
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Poetic references, wise counsel: Review of Radical Joy for Hard Times
February 13, 2020Just before running out the door on the morning of September 27th, my eye was caught by a brief article in the paper announcing that a Trump Company proposal to build a 550–unit luxury housing …
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Sacred Arts: Creative Expressions of Faith to Heal a Threatened Earth
January 4, 2020At the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Toronto, Trebbe Johnson led a panel with four women from the Dineh (Navajo)-Cheyenne, Jewish, Hindu, and Wikka traditions. They discussed how their spiritual traditions have helped them …
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“Heartwrenching and beautiful, impossibly sad and strangely visionary”
November 8, 2019Author and activist Thea Levkovitz writes a rave review of Trebbe’s book in the current issue of the esteemed quarterly, Parabola.
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