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The Gravity of Joy

A Story of Being Lost and Found

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The Gravity of Joy

By: Angela Williams Gorrell
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Less than a year after joining the Theology of Joy and the Good Life project at the Yale Center for Faith and Culture, Angela Gorrell got word that a close family member had died by suicide. Less than a month later, she lost her father to a fatal opioid addiction and her nephew, only 22 years old, to sudden cardiac arrest. The theoretical joy she was researching at Yale suddenly felt shallow and distant - completely unattainable in the fog of grief she now found herself in.

But joy was closer at hand than it seemed. As she began leading Bible studies at a women’s maximum-security prison, she met people who suffered extensively yet still showed a tremendous capacity for joy. Talking with these women, many of whom had struggled with addiction and suicidal thoughts themselves, she realized: “Joy doesn’t obliterate grief.... Instead, joy has a mysterious capacity to be felt alongside of sorrow and even - sometimes most especially - in the midst of suffering.”

In The Gravity of Joy, Gorrell uses her search for authentic, grounded Christian joy to reflect on the larger societal need for joy as a counteragent to the despair all too prevalent in the 21st century. Inviting action in response to the tragedies of addiction and suicide, she articulates a vision for communities that yearn for joy and “walk together through the shadows” to find it.

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