When faith communities neglect feelings, it can result in confusion, miscommunication, and hurt. This practical and insightful book helps individuals and congregations build affective capacity leading to greater wholeness, healing, and possibility.
— Ian T. Douglas, Bishop, Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut
Kondrath beckons his readers into places of the soul through the portal of feelings. We don’t just use our emotions to guide our thoughts, they are capable of doing jobs cognition fails to do. Integrated feelings, he says, are essential in congregational life and personal wellness and he guides the reader in thoughtful and satisfying engagements with them.
— Karen A. McClintock, author of Shame-Less Lives, Grace-Full Congregations
We have been waiting for this book for a long time. The very idea that faith communities might become emotionally literate and affectively competent is almost too powerful to contemplate. It is not just a dream. It is the fulfillment of a religious vocation.
— Christopher Lind, Senior Fellow, Massey College; Executive director, Sorrento Center
This book is packed with insightful strategies worth using immediately. Kondrath reveals how skillful awareness of our own emotions and feelings as leaders, and nurturing that in others, strengthens the way faith communities serve together.
— Lisa Fortuna, Priest, Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts