Faith on the Edges Saturday Workshop

Cultivating Compassion

Frank Rogers, Jr.

Dr. Rogers is the Muriel Bernice Roberts Professor of Spiritual Formation & Narrative Pedagogy 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, his research interests include: Compassion, Contemplative Spiritual Formation, Compassion-Based Social Engagement, Narrative in Education and Formation, and Psycho-Spiritual Restoration of Trauma.

Compassion is the heartbeat of a truly spiritually alive human being. And the path that Jesus taught us invites us first to know intimately an extravagantly compassionate God who holds us wherever we are and calls us beloved.

It is a path of self-compassion that stills the storms of our inner chaos and restores us to what it is to be a humanity fully alive. And it is a path that invites us into a radical compassion towards others. toward our loved ones, towards the neighbor, towards strangers, to the outcasts, but even to people who we oppose, to love even our enemies.”

Frank Rogers, Jr.