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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.

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Radical Joy Revealed is a weekly message of inspiration about finding and making beauty in wounded places.

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Welcome, Noisy Traffic!

August 23rd, 2023|

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 [...]

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Witness to Healing

August 16th, 2023|

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 [...]

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Thank Something!

August 9th, 2023|

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 [...]

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RadJoy Amidst Climate Change

August 2nd, 2023|

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 [...]

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Latest news and upcoming events from the Radical Joy community 

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Questions for the Forest (Revealed).

November 30th, 2022|

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 [...]

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Music in Ancient Mountains

November 23rd, 2022|

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 [...]

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Global Day of Mourning

October 16th, 2022|

 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 [...]

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Articles and references to Radical Joy in the media

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Gifts in the Promised Land

May 11th, 2020|

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

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Mountainside

July 15th, 2023|

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 [...]

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Current River

July 15th, 2023|

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 [...]

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Wrightsville Beach

July 15th, 2023|

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 [...]

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Dyarubbin

July 15th, 2023|

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. Sackville Reserve [...]

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Beloved Forest

July 15th, 2023|

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, [...]

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The River Severn

July 15th, 2023|

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 [...]