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Whom can educators look to as an exemplar of kind and compassionate teaching? Gabrielle Vogt and Ann Monroe explore the life and work of Fred Rogers as an unconventional teacher. By focusing on relationships, treating each child as unique, honoring children’s emotions, and communicating a positive message, Rogers showed care for children and their development. The authors encourage teachers to follow his example to create an environment that addresses children’s emotional needs and well-being.

This article consists of two thought experiments on pastoral theological implications of resurrection accounts in the Gospel of Luke. Emphasis in both biblical narratives on the pathos of Jesus’ life and the material presence of his resurrection body is interpreted to promote the therapeutic relevance for individuals of revisiting their embodied childhood shame as a path to greater hope and vitality. The risen Jesus models for his followers an intentional eisegesis, whereby readers may be encouraged to overcome psychological impediments to exploring their own archaic sorrows and to read their childhood suffering into the story of God.

This essay is a somewhat expanded version of an address to students and faculty delivered by the author on September 20, 2009, at the opening convocation of the 198th academic year of Princeton Theological Seminary. Building on Jesus’ parable of the shepherd and one lost sheep from Luke 15, it underscores the vulnerability of individuals to confusion and humiliation and advocates for the historic emphasis of pastoral theology on the one over the many as a preferred path to mutuality without coercion.

When PBS Digital Studios released a video that remixes old clips of the longtime PBS show \"Mister Rogers' Neighborhood\" into an auto-tuned song called \"Garden of Your Mind,\" it became an instant hit.

Like losing favourite uncles, millions of us have grieved in the past year at the deaths of Bob Keeshan, the creator of Captain Kangaroo on CBS, and Fred Rogers, who developed Mister Rogers' Neighbourhood on public television. The first time I professionally watched children watching television, two preschool sisters were viewing Mister Rogers. At times they watched intently, at times they played with toys or each other, but throughout, they kept up a running dialogue with Mr. Rogers. He and the Captain knew that young children are intellectually and emotionally involved with programs that respect their level of development. The effects are traceable for years, as we found when my colleagues and I interviewed and reviewed the transcripts of high school students we had studied as preschoolers in the early 1980s. The more these teens had watched programs like Captain Kangaroo, Mister Rogers and Sesame Street as preschoolers - the Captain aired on CBS from 1955-1984 and on PBS until 1990, Mister Rogers ran on PBS from 1968-2001, and Sesame Street started on PBS in 1969 - the better were their high school grades in English, math and science. They also read more books for pleasure, and were less likely to endorse violent solutions to hypothetical social problems.

WHATEVER will we do now that Mister Rogers is dead? I first saw Mister Rogers shortly after my son was born and I had graduated with a bachelors degree from Marshall University with a certificate in cynicism er journalism. On second thought, maybe cynicism describes it. Its a common condition among those of us who choose that profession. But why not? In 1972, as a reporter, I walked among the dead bodies and muck on Buffalo Creek in Logan County where 125 people died after a coal mine slag dam broke and spilled death and destruction through the Logan County hollow. The coal company claimed it was an act of God. Meanwhile, this quiet man in a sweater and sneakers captured the attention of my son like no other TV personality. The soft-spoken Fred Rogers hypnotized him, and I would sit and watch my son watch him. Mister Rogers told my son that it was a beautiful day in the neighborhood. He told my son that he was loved and that someone would always be there to take care of him.

\"It's been 50 years since Fred Rogers first appeared on TV screens, a gentle and avuncular man who warbled 'Won't You Be My Neighbor?' as he changed into a cardigan and sneakers. The low-key, low-tech 'Mister Rogers' Neighborhood' presented Rogers as one adult in a busy world who always had time to listen to children. That legacy burns for many in these turbulent times.\" (Associated Press) Read more about the anniversary celebration of \"Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.\"

The weekend marks the renaming of the WQED studio, where the show was taped, after [Fred Rogers]. The show, now in its 41st year, is the longest-running show on public television, according to Maria Pisano, WQED's marketing associate. \"People are very emotionally connected to the show and their memories,\" Pisano said. \"It's really amazing to see the impact.\" King Friday's castle and the tree where Henrietta and X the Owl lived are on display at WQED year-round. But Lady Elaine's Museum Go-Round has been in storage since taping of the show ended in 2001, as has the tower and the rest of the colorful set.

Yesterday, officials at St. Vincent finally threw Rogers' hoped- for gathering at its Latrobe campus. They called it a symposium, but the people who took part, many of them friends and colleagues of the beloved \"television neighbor,\" said it was a celebration of Rogers' legacy to educators, TV producers, children and parents. \"After a day of brainstorming ideas and talking over what [Fred McFeely Rogers] would have wanted, we're learning what this institution could become,\" [Milton Chen] said. \"Some of the people here really are the shepherds of Fred's legacy. He handpicked most of the people here, people informed by his work and his power as a person.\" \"Pittsburgh is privileged, because Fred lived here with you, he was part of daily life. But the fact he grew up in Latrobe, that he was seminary trained ... that he viewed his show as a ministry to children, to millions of us that is a hidden history,\" Chen said.

Unlike the already departed Bozo -- and don't let the pie hit you in the face on the way out, Mr. Clown -- [Fred Rogers]' award-winning series won't be going away any time soon. There exist more than 700 episodes, most of them as timeless as a cardigan sweater, and PBS and WTTW are committed to extending the show's reign as the longest- running kids' show on public television at least through this next TV season.