Books about Deacons, the Diaconate & Servant Ministry

Written by Laity, Priests and Bishops
​(Alphabetical by author)

​The Diaconate, a Full and Equal Order
By James Barnett, 1995

​The Servant Church, Diaconal Ministry and the Episcopal Church
By John E Booty, 1982

​Being a Deacon Today: Exploring a Distinctive Ministry in the Church and in the World
By Rosalind Brown, 2005

​Deacons and the Church: Making connections between old and new
By John N. Collins, 2002

​Diakonia Studies: Critical Issues in Ministry
By John N. Collins, 2017

​The Deacon's Ministry of the Word 
​by Jay Cormier, 2016

​Diakonia as Christian Social Practice
Edited by Stephanie Dietrich et al, 2014

​The Meaning and Nature of Diakonia
By Paulos Mai Gregorios, Orthodox Bishop. 1988

​The Character of the Deacon 
​Edited by James Keating, 2017

Called to Serve, The United Methodist Diaconate
By Rosemary and Gerald F. Moede, and Mary Moore Keller, 1987

​Blue Sky and a Buick, the Journey of Mary Christiana Hettler
By Karen Wilkes, lay, about an Episcopal Deaconess, 2012

Inferior Office? A History of Deacons in the Church of England
​by Francis Young, 2015

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