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Book Recommendation: Aggressively Happy by Joy Marie Clarkson

March 29th, 2022 | 4 min read

By Jake Meador

Joy has written the book that I wish had existed when I was in college so my college pastor or church pastor could have given it to me and saved us all a lot of time and expense on coffeeshops and lunches. If you’re like me, you can live in your own head a lot and spend a great deal of time trying to think your way to a solution to all your problems. But in many cases, the problem isn’t necessarily intellectual and neither is the solution. What you really need is something more practical that can help guide you toward wise action amidst confusion. That is what Joy’s book does.

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Jake Meador

Jake Meador is the editor-in-chief of Mere Orthodoxy. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Commonweal, First Things, Books & Culture, The Dispatch, National Review, Comment, Christianity Today, and Plough. He lives in his hometown of Lincoln, NE with his wife and four children.

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