Lake Drive Books is pleased to announce that Cradled in the Arms of Compassion: A Spiritual Journey from Trauma to Recovery has garnered a 2024 "Best Book" Award in Religion. It was selected as the winner among seven finalists for the "general: religion" category.
The "Best Book" Awards, sponsored by American Book Fest, is in its twenty-first year and covers books from all sections of the publishing industry—mainstream, independent, and self-published. Winners and finalists of this year’s contest join a prestigious group of past laureates including Pope Francis, Amy Tan, Anne Lamott, George Sanders, Julie Andrews, Clive Barker, Vanessa Williams, Shark Tank’s Daymon John, Brad Thor, Kitty Kelley, and others.
Cradled in the Arms of Compassion also was previously selected as one of the Best Spiritual Books of 2023 by Spirituality and Practice magazine, and Richard Schwartz, PhD, developer of the Internal Family Systems Model says, “This is an amazing book that I couldn’t put down once I started it.”
A Male Account of Childhood Sexual Abuse and Healing
As one of the few male accounts of childhood sexual abuse and fewer still that charts a spiritual course for the transformation of trauma, Cradled in the Arms of Compassion by spiritual director and professor Frank Rogers Jr. tells the story of how as a a young adult, he was tormented by trauma suffered in his 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, which 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 Jr., PhD, is the Muriel Bernice Roberts Professor of Spiritual Formation and Narrative Pedagogy at Claremont School of Theology. He’s a spiritual director, speaker, retreat leader, and the author of Practicing Compassion, Compassion in Practice: The Way of Jesus, and The God of Shattered Glass: A Novel. He focuses on spirituality that is contemplative, creative, and socially liberative. He is the cofounder of the Center for Engaged Compassion (centerforengagedcompassion.com) and lives in Southern California with his wife, Dr. Alane Daugherty, with whom he shares three sons.
