{"title":"Frank Rogers Jr","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"cradled-in-the-arms-of-compassion-book-frank-rogers-jr-9781957687209","title":"Cradled in the Arms of Compassion","description":"\"This is an amazing book that I couldn't put down once I started it. In Frank's brutally honest and remarkably disclosive telling of his story you will find a hope-filled model.\"-Richard Schwartz, PhD, developer of the Internal Family Systems model\"You were like this once. What did you do to get better?\" A day out from a mental institution, a woman devastated by flashbacks from childhood trauma poses this question to her big brother. Within a few weeks, she took her own life. This book is the answer that her brother wished he could have offered.Spiritual director and professor Frank Rogers had been there. As a young adult, he too was tormented by trauma suffered in the same family. Wracked by depression, he was on the cliff edge of suicide. From intense despair, he set off on a quest-for answers, for sanity, for a credible God to see him through. Cradled in the Arms of Compassion is at once a narrative of psychological transformation and a spiritual autobiography that details the survivor's journey. Rogers shows how he found recovery through a combination of reflective retreats, therapy, creative expression, and an extraordinary application of imaginative meditation that spiritual seekers and practitioners will find utterly fascinating. The ensuing discovery evolved into the uniquely self-restorative process known as the Compassion Practice.Frank Rogers' account reveals that a compassionate sacred presence sustains this wounded world, and that this presence can be known, even in the sewers of life's most damaging traumas.One of the few male accounts of childhood sexual abuse and fewer still that charts a spiritual course for the transformation of trauma.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49570402828561,"sku":"CIN1957687207A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50765280018705,"sku":"CIN1957687207G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50929464639761,"sku":"GOR014128509","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51059833733393,"sku":"NIN9781957687209","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52450797879569,"sku":"NLS9781957687209","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53421093617937,"sku":"CIN1957687207VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1957687207.jpg?v=1751126096"},{"product_id":"god-of-shattered-glass-book-frank-rogers-9781608993246","title":"The God of Shattered Glass","description":"Description: Where does one find hope in the midst of profound suffering? Tony Backman aches to know. A blues-harmonica-playing child psychologist at a residential treatment center in Santa Rosa, California, Tony specializes in narrative therapy. His story-based technique empowers abused teenagers to reimagine their lives through myths and folktales and so restore their vitality. Such vitality, however, eludes Tony in his own life. Mired in depression, he longs for his fractured family and fends off childhood flashbacks too painful to face. Tony's mentor recommends classical underworld myths as a roadmap for the spiritual journey toward healing and hope, but Tony is too drained for the undertaking. Until Carey Foster enters his life. Carey is a golden-voiced eleven-year-old choral soloist at a local Catholic boys' home. Brought to Tony's treatment center with his wrists sliced, Carey cowers mutely with his secrets in the center's locked ward, a flicking middle finger his only beacon. Carey's healing depends on Tony's ability to navigate the labyrinth of deception and cryptic self-disclosure that conceals the soul's darkest secrets. It also depends upon Tony's willingness to navigate the labyrinth of love and disappointment lodged in his own soul. At once a psychological study of how trauma is healed; a hero's journey through the underworld of abuse, betrayal, and shattered faith; and a theological thriller in search of a credible and sustaining Sacred in the midst of unspeakable suffering, The God of Shattered Glass reveals that stories do indeed heal, and that the way to God is not up, but down. Endorsements: This novel is a breath-taking, soul-searing, and truth-telling experience. When you allow Frank Rogers to take you into the lives of child psychologist Tony Backman and the boy Carey Foster--after a few sentences, you will be in Rogers' masterful grip--then you will enter straight into the depths of the human condition . . . I urge all serious readers to put on a diving mask and plunge into The God of Shattered Glass. This is a story that dares those who seek and teach truth to look into its mirror. --Carol Lakey Hess author of Caretakers of our Common House: Women's Development in Communities of Faith Would that more of us theologians could write in this vein . . . It is one thing to assert that God is utterly compassionate toward every creature and calls us to a like compassion. It is quite another to draw us through the depths of hell and hatred to a realization of that compassion, even for ourselves. Frank Rogers' novel existentially deconstructs the cosmic patriarchy that so distorts the thinking of believers and unbelievers alike--and all the false expectations it has conjured up. --John B. Cobb Jr. author of For the Common Good and Christ in a Pluralistic Age As somebody who has spent over thirty years working with troubled youth, I found Frank Roger's The God of Shattered Glass a revelation. He not only knows the boys in residential homes, he knows the world that created them. Equally important his narrator, Tony, a psychologist, who tries to save a boy who has been abused, comes alive as a passionate person who is willing to 'dine with demons, ' and reveal his hopes and fears. This book illuminates a much neglected corner of our world and shows how it is connected to the rest of us. --Daniel Judah Sklar playwright and author of Playmaking: Children Writing and Performing Their Own Plays About the Contributor(s): Frank Rogers is Professor of Spiritual Formation and Narrative Pedagogy at the Claremont School of Theology. As a narrative educator and spiritual director, he works with marginalized young people and adult survivors of childhood abuse, using story as a means of personal healing and social empowerment. Their stories, and his, inform this novel. Frank lives in Southern California where he runs in the foothills and hikes in the mountains. This is his first novel, and the firs","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51039392596241,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51039397839121,"sku":"NIN9781608993246","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52587880153361,"sku":"NLS9781608993246","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53195645124881,"sku":"CIN1608993248G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1608993248.jpg?v=1751088233"},{"product_id":"cradled-in-the-arms-of-compassion-book-frank-rogers-jr-9781957687339","title":"Cradled in the Arms of Compassion","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSelected as one of the Best Spiritual Books of 2023 by Spirituality and Practice\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"This is an amazing book that I couldn't put down once I started it. \u003c\/strong\u003e-Richard Schwartz, PhD, developer of the Internal Family Systems model\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"You were like this once. What did you do to get better?\" A day out from a mental institution, a woman devastated by flashbacks from childhood trauma poses this question to her big brother. Within a few weeks, she took her own life. This book is the answer that her brother wished he could have offered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpiritual director and professor Frank Rogers had been there. As a young adult, he too was tormented by trauma suffered in the same family. Wracked by depression, he was on the cliff edge of suicide. From intense despair, he set off on a quest--for answers, for sanity, for a credible God to see him through. Cradled in the Arms of Compassion is at once a narrative of psychological transformation and a spiritual autobiography that details the survivor's journey. Rogers shows how he found recovery through a combination of reflective retreats, therapy, creative expression, and an extraordinary application of imaginative meditation that spiritual seekers and practitioners will find utterly fascinating. The ensuing discovery evolved into the uniquely self-restorative process known as the Compassion Practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrank Rogers' account reveals that a compassionate sacred presence sustains this wounded world, and that this presence can be known, even in the sewers of life's most damaging traumas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOne of the few male accounts of childhood sexual abuse and fewer still that charts a spiritual course for the transformation of trauma.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner in the General Religion Category of American Book Fest's 2024 Best Book Awards\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Like all good memoir, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eCradled in the Arms of Compassion\u003c\/em\u003e has a robust narrative engine--the reader is led along, page-by-page, with questions, curiosities, and a desire to see what 'happens next.\" -\u003cem\u003eSpirituality and Practice\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51061520367889,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51061523087633,"sku":"NIN9781957687339","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51694215758097,"sku":"CIN1957687339G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52147193839889,"sku":"NLS9781957687339","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1957687339.jpg?v=1761041459"},{"product_id":"compassion-in-practice-revised-edition-book-frank-rogers-jr-9780835820769","title":"Compassion in Practice, Revised Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDiscover a path of radical compassion rooted in the way of Jesus.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow do we practice love and compassion for ourselves and others in a world marred by conflict and violence in our families, communities, institutions--and even our own hearts? In Compassion in Practice: The Way of Jesus, internationally renowned compassion teacher Frank Rogers introduces the spiritual path of radical compassion Jesus walked and taught, grounded in God's extravagant love for all people. This path transforms hardened hearts and brings healing and wholeness to even the most challenging situations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this inspiring and practical book, you'll discover a series of practices to ground and restore you through self-compassion as you cultivate an ethic of radical care that extends not only to loved ones, neighbors, and strangers, but also to enemies, opponents, and oppressors. Illuminated with extraordinary real-life stories of restorative love in action, these practices will equip you to step heart-first into a challenging world, ready to engage in a new way that beats with the pulse of compassion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis updated and revised edition provides specific practices for compassionate social activism, more interfaith conversation, and a \"compassion compass\" to help orient you as you travel the path of healing and restoration.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn Compassion in Practice, you will learn:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe six essential dimensions of authentic compassion\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eA compassion practice that softens hardened hearts and accesses our best self\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSpiritual exercises to cultivate compassion for yourself and others\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe critical difference between empathy and compassion\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHow to practice compassion with a difficult person or amid violence and injustice\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eTen principles of empowered and just compassionate action\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53398472982801,"sku":"NIN9780835820769","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780835820769.jpg?v=1775962741"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-frank-rogers-jr.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}