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EARTH EXCHANGE CAFE INTERVIEWS
Every month Trebbe Johnson and Harriet Sams host Earth Exchange Café and interview a pioneering artist, thinker, or activist whose work inspires that of RadJoy.
Earth Exchange Café Conversation with Brigid Hopkins
Brigid Hopkins is the author of Love Letters to the Earth and other books. She also creates Impermasculptures, art works [...]
Earth Exchange Café Conversation with LaUra Schmidt
LaUra Schmidt, along with her partner Aimee Lewis-Reau, is the cofounder of the Good Grief Network, one of the first [...]
Earth Exchange Conversation with Pat McCabe/Woman Stands Shining
As part of our Spirit Spring series, we welcome Pat McCabe (Weyakpa Najin Win, Woman Stands Shining). She is a [...]
Earth Exchange Café Conversation with Rabbi Ellen Bernstein
As part of our Spirit Spring series, we welcome Rabbi Ellen Bernstein. Ellen writes, teaches, speaks and consults about the [...]
RADICAL JOY REVEALED
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Welcome, Noisy Traffic!
Sometimes we’re invited to live by our principles at the very moment we’d rather have things go more satisfactorily our own way. As a great fan of the Parliament of the World's Religions and an attendee [...]
Witness to Healing
Ever since our very first Global Earth Exchange in 2010, Autumn Van Ord and Lisa McCall of Baltimore have been going to Wyman Park to offer some attention and beauty. As a large, popular urban [...]
Thank Something!
A Diné (Navajo) friend once told me a story about how a porcupine thanked her grandmother. Every day the woman had to walk a long way from her traditional hogan to get water. One day [...]
RadJoy Amidst Climate Change
Tuesday, July 6, was the hottest day in human history. During that very hot month that has just ended, wildfires raged in Canada and Spain; floods inundated cities in Vermont, Italy, India, and Japan; and [...]
LATEST NEWS
Latest news and upcoming events from the Radical Joy community
Questions for the Forest (Revealed).
A comment that Malena Bergmann’s students at the University at North Carolina in Charlotte often make is that she "thinks outside the box" more than anyone they’ve ever known. As an artist and educator, Bergmann [...]
Music in Ancient Mountains
How are we to live in a place in crisis? How are we to go on loving the land, even though it’s changing in ways we bitterly regret? How do we acknowledge what’s wrong while [...]
Global Day of Mourning
January 10, 2021 On January 11, 2020 a 61-year-old man from Wuhan, China became the first reported casualty of coronavirus. Within one year this lethal disease had infected more than 80 million people worldwide and [...]
A Buddhist Psychology Perspective on the Radical Joy Practice
On July 25, 2022, Radical Joy for Hard Times activist and board member Harriet Sams, Cumbria, England, led a meditative RadJoy Practice for members of the Buddhist Plum Village Community of the UK. [...]
IN THE MEDIA
Articles and references to Radical Joy in the media
Gifts in the Promised Land
The 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 its people and bring ceremony and new life. https://radicaljoy.org/wp-content/uploads/Gifts-in-the-Promised-Land—Trebbe-Johnson.pdf
Conversation between Francis Weller & Trebbe Johnson
A 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 [...]
Poetic references, wise counsel: Review of Radical Joy for Hard Times
Just 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 [...]
RECENT STORIES
Stories shared by the Radical Joy community
Mountainside
12 members of the Earth Listening Circles of the Deep Adaptation Forum visited places local to them and did an Earth Exchange, as part of a global collaboration to listen to wounded places. A beloved [...]
Current River
12 members of the Earth Listening Circles of the Deep Adaptation Forum, facilitated by Sasha, visited places local to them and did an Earth Exchange, as part of a global collaboration to listen to wounded [...]
Wrightsville Beach
12 members of the Earth Listening Circles of the Deep Adaptation Forum visited places local to them and did an Earth Exchange, as part of a global collaboration to listen to wounded places. This is [...]
Trees living in a historic battleground
12 members of the Earth Listening Circles of the Deep Adaptation Forum visited places local to them and did an Earth Exchange, as part of a global collaboration to listen to wounded places. Nadine Saidi [...]
Beloved Forest
12 members of the Earth Listening Circles of the Deep Adaptation Forum visited places local to them and did an Earth Exchange, as part of a global collaboration to listen to wounded places. St. Georgen, [...]
The River Severn
12 members of the Earth Listening Circles of the Deep Adaptation Forum visited places local to them and did an Earth Exchange, as part of a global collaboration to listen to wounded places As l [...]
Access (Hunting Island State Park, South Carolina)
(Yvonne Dalschen is one of the members of Kinship Photography Collective who participated in this year's Global Earth Exchange) This was my first visit to Hunting Island State Park in South Carolina. It’s a beautiful place [...]