Author: Trebbe Johnson

Trebbe Johnson is the author of Fierce Consciousness: Surviving the Sorrows of Earth and Self, and other books, as well as many articles and essays that explore the human bond with nature. She is also the founder and director of the global community Radical Joy for Hard Times, devoted to finding and making beauty in wounded places. She is a contributing editor of Parabola.

Lament and Praise for the Earth

Elk in the Bitterroot River at Sula, Montana, during a fire, year 2000. Photograph by John McColgan, fire-behavior analyst with the BLM’s Alaska Fire Service. Wikimedia Commons. Author: John McGolgan—edited by Fir0002.

A passionate prayer for what is lost and what is found

Light and Danger through the Crack in the Door, by Trebbe Johnson

Photograph by Trebbe Johnson

A lively report from the 2023 Parliament of the World’s Religions

Stones in the Sacred Household: The 2021 Parliament of the World’s Religions, by Trebbe Johnson

A hopeful report from the 2021 Parliament of the World’s Religions

Kissed by Fire, by Trebbe Johnson

Andy with tea bowl. Photograph by Trebbe Johnson

Fire Creates. Fire Cooks. Fire Kills. Fire also kisses. It kisses death from life and life from death.

Equipment List for the Journey Home, by Trebbe Johnson

A guide to exploring, inner and outer

How Do We Reclaim The Heart Of Humanity?, by Trebbe Johnson

A Report on the 2015 Parliament of the World’s Religions.