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How Is It Possible to Love a Hurt Place?
May 11, 2022Shortly after meeting in Cazenovia, New York in 2009 to design our new organization, Radical Joy for Hard Times founding member Noah Crowe experimented with the practice we’d devised to find and make beauty in …
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How to Fill a Hole
May 4, 2022What do you do with a big hole? Do you negotiate around it? Do you figure it’s beyond repair and try to ignore it? Or do you take the RadJoy approach and fill the hole …
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Global Day of Mourning Featured in Forbes Magazine blog
January 20, 2021It goes without saying that the majority of people around the world were ready to say goodbye to 2020 last week. In embracing 2021, many took to social media, posting images and quotes about their …
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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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