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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 Linda Sartor
Linda Sartor has faced wounded places in several ways, both professionally and personally. Since 9/11/2001, she has travelled internationally in[...]
Earth Exchange Café Conversation with Steffi Bednarek
Steffi Bednarek is the editor of the new book, Climate, Psychology, and Change: Reimaginaing Psychotherapy in an Era of Global[...]
Earth Exchange Café Conversation with Lily Yeh
Lily Yeh is a pioneering artist of community works of beauty and healing in hurt places from Philadelphia to Rwanda[...]
Earth Exchange Café Conversation with Francis Weller
Francis Weller is a psychotherapist, writer and soul activist, who is renowned for his work helping people accept and move[...]
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[...]
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Valentines for the Earth
es, Valentine's Day was yesterday. But it's never too late to express our love for the Earth. On the day of Radical Joy for Hard Times's annual Global Earth Exchange, people usually use found materials[...]
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[...]
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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[...]
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