Frank Rogers, Jr.

Muriel Bernice Roberts Professor of Spiritual Formation & Narrative Pedagogy
Co-Director of the Center for Engaged Compassion

Frank Rogers, Jr. is CST’s Muriel Bernice Roberts Professor of Spiritual Formation and Narrative Pedagogy and the co-founder and co-director of the Center for Engaged Compassion. His teaching focuses on spiritual formation that is contemplative, creative, and socially liberative. A trained spiritual director and experienced retreat leader, he is the author of Cradled in the Arms of Compassion: A Spiritual Journey from Trauma to Recovery; Practicing Compassion; Compassion in Practice: The Way of Jesus; The God of Shattered Glass, A Novel; and Finding God in the Graffiti: Empowering Teenagers through Stories.

He lives in southern California with his wife, Dr. Alane Daugherty, with whom he shares three young adult sons, Justin, Michael, and Sammy. With his wife, he loves to run, hike, snorkel, and follow baseball.

Contact
Email: frogers@cst.edu


Research Interests

Compassion, Contemplative Spiritual Formation, Compassion-Based Social Engagement, Narrative in Education and Formation, Psycho-Spiritual Restoration of Trauma

 

Education

PhD in Religious Formation

 

Experience

Co-Director of the Center for Engaged Compassion

 

Publications

“Compassion-Based Spiritual Direction: Internal Family Systems as a Resource for Spiritual Companions” Presence: An International Journal of Spiritual Direction 26, 4 (December 2020): 50-60.

“Warriors of Compassion: Coordinates on the Compass of Compassion-Based Activism” chapter in Taking it to the Streets: Public Theologies of Activism and Resistance, Editor Jennifer Baldwin (Lanham, MD: Lexington Press, 2019)

Compassion in Practice: The Way of Jesus (Nashville, TN: Upper Room Books, 2016)

Practicing Compassion (Nashville, TN: Fresh Air Books, January 2016)

Finding God in the Graffiti: Empowering Teenagers through Stories (Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim Press, September 2011)

The God of Shattered Glass: A Novel (Eugene, OR: Emerald City Books, January 2011)

Awards and Distinctions

Exemplary Teacher of the Year Award, General Board of Higher Education And Ministry, United Methodist Church, 2020-21

Fisher Faculty Teacher Award, Claremont School of Theology, 2018

Practicing Compassion (Nashville, TN: Fresh Air Books, January 2016) Finalist for Best Spirituality Book of 2016, USA Best Book Awards

A great theological education dismantles everything you assumed to be “right” and helps you rebuild with true understanding. My CST experience was life-altering. I am changed and on fire to transform the world.
Abigail Clauhs '17