Quietly Courageous: Leading the Church in a Changing World

"Gil Rendle is on a very short list of our wisest guides in the practice of leadership in the United Methodist Church. And for those of us tempted toward a nostalgia that is avoidance, an empathy that is unhelpful, and a weariness that is escapist, he urges us to engage with courage and conviction. Quietly Courageous is the summation of decades of persistent attention and deep learning about how we have come to this place, and who God calls us to be in service to the mission."

— Kenneth H. Carter Jr.,
president of the Council of Bishops of the United Methodist Church; author of Embracing the Wideness

Gil Rendle compassionately turns us away from our preoccupation with feeding old anxieties about how to lead our organizations. He walks with us toward a newfound courage to be discovered within the deep waters of yet unimagined possibilities

— Thomas V. Wolfe,
President and CEO, Iliff School of Theology