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    Practicing Compassion
    Practicing Compassion
    Practicing Compassion
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    Practicing Compassion

    By Frank Rogers Jr.

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    Everybody believes in compassion, but nobody tells you how to practice it. Until now. Frank Rogers turns compassion into a doable, daily practice—as simple as catching your breath and taking your pulse. If you want to read a book that actually has the capacity to change your life (and the world), beginning today, this is the book to read.

    —Brian D. McLaren
    Author/speaker/blogger/activist (brianmclaren.net)

    If you want clear, practical guidance on how to cultivate the inner resources to become a healing presence and force of good for the world, there is no better book than this and no better guide than Frank Rogers.

    —John Makransky
    Professor of Comparative Theology, Boston College
    Author of Awakening through Love

    Compassion is more than a sympathetic feeling—it's the bond of human connection. Most religions lift up compassion, yet few people actually teach how to practice it.

    Through rich and moving stories of people from various faiths, Frank Rogers shows ways to incorporate compassion in our daily lives. His interfaith perspective on mercy, kindness, and caring for one another trains us to Pay attention, Understand empathically, Love with connection, Sense the sacredness, and Embody new life (PULSE).

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFresh Air Books
    Release dateJan 1, 2015
    ISBN9781935205272
    Practicing Compassion
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    Frank Rogers Jr.

    Frank Rogers, Jr. is the Muriel Bernice Roberts Professor of Spiritual Formation and Narrative Pedagogy and the co-director of the Center for Engaged Compassion at the Claremont School of Theology. His teaching and writing focus on spiritual formation that is contemplative, creative, and socially liberative. A trained spiritual director and experienced retreat leader, he has written on the interconnections between spirituality, social engagement, and compassion. He is the author of Practicing Compassion (and its supplemental curriculum, The Way of Radical Compassion); The God of Shattered Glass, A Novel, and Finding God in the Graffiti: Empowering Teenagers through Stories which explores the role of the narrative arts in the spiritual formation of marginalized and abused youth and children. His current project is designing and teaching in the Triptykos School of Compassion, a three-month intensive formation program in radical compassion.

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