Exactly as you are : the life and faith of Mister Rogers

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Personal Author:

Tuttle, Shea, 1983-

Physical Description:

xiv, 197 pages : col. ill. ; 23 cm.

Summary:

"In Search of Mister Rogers pursues a rich understanding of this good, kind, sometimes strange, deeply influential, holy man: the neighborhood he came from, the neighborhood he built, and the kind of neighbor he, by his example, calls all of us to be even now, in our own troubled time"--

Contents:

Introduction: Why hi, don't I know you? -- Becoming Mister Rogers: from Latrobe, Pennsylvania to Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. Childhood, love, and fear ; The first neighborhood ; Adolescence and acceptance ; College years, loneliness, and musical expression ; Formation in New York City ; Whimsy and seriousness on The Children's Corner ; Graduate studies and life-transforming teachers ; Canada, fatherhood, and separation ; Television and the church -- Broadcasting grace: Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. Change, fear, and peace ; Neighborhood liturgy ; Parable of the kingdom ; Difference in the neighborhood -- Hello, neighbor: finding Fred Rogers. Puppets and personality ; Friends and neighbors : Fred's big feelings ; All ground as holy ground ; Heaven is a neighborhood.

Subject Term:

Television personalities -- United States -- Biography.

Presbyterian Church -- United States -- Clergy -- Biography.

Television and children

Moral education

Publication Info:

Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2019.

Subject:

Television personalities -- United States -- Biography.

Presbyterian Church -- United States -- Clergy -- Biography.

Television and children

Moral education

Rogers, Fred -- Religion.

Mister Rogers' neighborhood (Television program)

Rogers, Fred McFeely

Rogers, Mister

Rogers, Mr., 1928-2003

Mister Rogers

Mr. Rogers' neighborhood (Television program)

MisteRogers' neighborhood (Television program)

Children and television

Character education

Ethical education

SAILS ISBN:

9780802876553

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Welcome to the spiritual neighborhood of Fred Rogers

"I like you as you are
Exactly and precisely
I think you turned out nicely
And I like you as you are."

Fred Rogers fiercely believed that all people deserve love. This conviction wasn't simply sentimental: it came directly from his Christian faith. God, he insisted, loves us just the way we are.

In Exactly as You Are , Shea Tuttle looks at Fred Rogers's life, the people and places that made him who he was, and his work through Mister Rogers' Neighborhood . She pays particular attention to his faith--because Fred Rogers was a deeply spiritual person, ordained by his church with a one-of-a-kind charge: to minister to children and families through television.

Tuttle explores this kind, influential, sometimes surprising man: the neighborhood he came from, the neighborhood he built, and the kind of neighbor he, by his example, calls all of us to be. Throughout, Tuttle shows how he was guided by his core belief: that God loves children, and everyone else, exactly as they are.

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Theologian Tuttle (Can I Get a Witness?) mixes anecdotes, analysis, and theological exploration in this delightful biography of Fred Rogers. In the first third, she follows Rogers's life from awkward, sickly child growing up in Latrobe, Penn.; through college at Rollins Collins; and the beginnings of his career in television. While Tuttle's beginning grafts many religious overtones onto Rogers's run-of-the-mill Christian upbringing, the remaining two-thirds build a striking and coherent image of Rogers's faith with impressive close readings of episodes of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, interviews, and writings plucked from Rogers's career. The comparison of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood to parables and the connection between Rogers's focus on emotion and the Incarnation in his personal beliefs are especially poignant. Tuttle provides a clear sense of the religious origins of Rogers's progressivism and its limits by showing how he gently pushed against gender norms and urged racial integration, but also insisted the gay actor playing Officer Clemmons remain closeted. There is a reverence in how Tuttle describes Rogers's actions and beliefs, but she avoids hagiography by showing some of her subject's shortcomings, such as his perfectionism and persistent avoidance of conflict. Tuttle's satisfying biography provides a keen sense of the deeply religious forces behind a classic TV show and its widely lauded creator. (Oct.)

Booklist Review

Fred Rogers was everybody's favorite neighbor, but he was also, as he once said of himself, a composer, piano player, writer, television producer, performer, husband, and father. He was an ordained Presbyterian minister, too, and, Tuttle adds in this affectionate biography, a man of complexity. Both whimsical and controlling, inarguably strange but clearly beloved, he was a deeply religious person. It is in the context of his religion that Tuttle limns what almost seems to be a charmed life. His neighborhood as a boy was Latrobe, Pennsylvania, where his parents were the richest people in town, but also, seemingly, the most generous, always helping those in need and selflessly serving the community. This service ethos helped define their son's life and the neighborhood he would create. Though Rogers was never overtly religious on the air, his beliefs were nevertheless fundamental to him as person and performer, and that sensibility informed his adored program. To his often-asked question, Won't you be my neighbor? readers will doubtless offer a resounding yes to both the question and this charming biography.--Michael Cart Copyright 2010 Booklist

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: Why hi, don't I know you?	p. 1
Becoming Mister Rogers
From Latrobe, Pennsylvania, to Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
1 Childhood, Love, and Fear	p. 9
Are you brave and don't know it?
2 The First Neighborhood	p. 15
It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood
3 Adolescence and Acceptance	p. 21
I like you as you are
4 College Years, Loneliness, and Musical Expression	p. 28
I'm learning to sing a sad song when I'm sad
5 Formation in New York City	p. 34
You're growing
6 Whimsy and Seriousness on The Children's Corner	p. 43
It's a neighborly day in this beauty wood
7 Graduate Studies and Life-Transforming Teachers	p. 56
Did you know when you marvel, you're learning?
8 Canada, Fatherhood, and Separation	p. 64
I like to be told when you're going away
9 Television and the Church	p. 70
It's the people you like the most who can make you feel maddest
Broadcasting Grace
Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood
10 Change, Fear, and Peace	p. 85
We all want peace
11 Neighborhood Liturgy	p. 95
I'll be back when the day is new
12 Parables of the Kingdom	p. 104
Won't you be my neighbor?
13 Difference in the Neighborhood	p. 111
I like someone who sings like, and walks like, and talks like, and looks like you
Hello, Neighbor
Finding Fred Rogers
14 Puppets and Personality	p. 127
I think III let the people see the comfortable inside of me
15 Friends and Neighbors	p. 135
There are many ways to say I love you
16 Fred's Big Feelings	p. 147
The very same people who are mad sometimes are the very same people who are glad sometimes
17 All Ground as Holy Ground	p. 158
Keep us safe and faithful, God. Tell us what to do
18 Heaven Is a Neighborhood	p. 166
Goodnight, God, and thank you for this very lovely day
Notes	p. 175

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