Economic anthropology and anthropology of emotions are rarely thought about together and yet have important common ground, particularly in matters of transaction and morality. Building on previous research in Papua New Guinea (PNG), ideas developed in forthcoming book ‘Economies of Care’ (in press), current fieldwork with Sufi Muslim Converts in Norwich, UK (ERC HeartOpenings) and in preparation for forthcoming fieldwork in PNG, I share some reflections on how we can understand matters of love, care and the heart in the contemporary world of capitalist and identity conflicts. Bringing together previous ethnographic findings and new methodologies of microphenomenology and audiovisual methods, I ask what is at stake with experiences of the divine and cultivated Islamic moral personhood across social cleavages and how these can be compared with gift exchange and urban and rural relationality in Highlands PNG, a context of growing inequality and environmental change.