Thomas S. Rogers III, MDiv, is an Episcopal priest and a supervisor in the Association of Clinical Pastoral Education, Inc. (ACPE). He grew up in Oklahoma City and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Texas Christian University and a Master of Divinity degree from Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University. After seminary and before being ordained, he completed a clinical pastoral education residency at Methodist Dallas Medical Center. He valued the experience of taking all he learned in seminary and putting it into practice using the action-reflection-new action model that is clinical pastoral education (CPE) and experiential education. Rogers pursued parish ministry for the next six and a half years. In 2011 he returned to CPE as a supervisory education student at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. He was certified as an ACPE, Inc., associate supervisor in 2015 and became executive director of Bishop Anderson House later that year. In his work as a pastoral educator, he draws upon liberation theology, Bowen family systems theory, Systems-Centered® Training and transformational learning. Rogers is certified as a Daring Way™ facilitator using Brené Brown’s work.
