This issue of the Mountain Record takes up the theme of Morality in the World. Rather than following our impulse to turn away from difficulties, to separate or isolate ourselves, a truly ethical response requires that we muster our courage and practice intimacy—that we be, as Daido Roshi puts it, “willing to enter the fray.” Includes authors Wangari Maathai, Rita Gross, Wendell Berry and Edward Tick, among others.