Title: Open-hearted ministry : play as key to pastoral leadership /
Authors: Koppel, Michael Sherwood.
Publisher: Fortress Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Pastoral theology.; Play Religious aspects Christianity
Abstract: "This book invites religious leaders to tap the responsive and contagious vitality of faith. Professional practice, if creative, will be spontaneous and lively. Pastors may lose their inherent resilience by focusing attention and expending energy in ways that deplete the soul. Michael Koppel shows how to reclaim one's "internal misfit" recovering those qualities, characteristics, and skills that God has gifted to each person and community in order to lead more freely and effectively in ministry. Conforming to or resisting external demands leads to disheartenment, while the practice of play empowers, restores, and heals. Dr. Koppel charts a course for you to develop or rediscover your style of faithfully engaged leadership." --Book Jacket.
Contents: Playfully misfit : a vision for effective pastoral leadership -- Play and grief : renewing trust for ministry -- Plays and playing : discovering authentic selfhood -- Playful teaching and learning -- Leadership as playful creative adventure -- The play of pastoral care -- All I ever needed to know I learned on the playground : insights and practices for pastoral leadership.