Articles are a collection of posts about Radical Joy in the media

Beauty and Terror
January 20, 2021Polly Howells of Glenford, New York writes of her confrontation with two great forces: For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are still …
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“Affection for an Unwelcome Guest”—Our Global Day of Mourning
January 13, 2021“How do we stay in affectionate relationship with an unwelcome guest?” mused Francis Weller. The unwelcome guest he was referring to is COVID-19, and Weller, author of The Wild Edge of Sorrow, was speaking on the …
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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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Orion Magazine Showcases Trebbe’s Book
October 4, 2019The award-winning nature magazine, Orion, features an excerpt from Trebbe Johnson’s book, Radical Joy for Hard Times: Finding Meaning and Making Beauty in Earth’s Broken Places, along with links to Trebbe’s Orion articles and webinar.
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