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Papers and Reports on the Diaconate & Servant Ministry

Materials are listed chronologically, with most recent first.
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The Issue of Sequential and Cumulative Ordination
By Deacon Michael Jackson, October 2020
  Read.
Followup: Responses to this paper here.
The shape of things to come
By David Clark, British Methodist Diaconal Order, 2020 
Argues that the world is facing a unique set of global challenges and that if we do not address them, humankind may eventually self-destruct.

Read.
Lutheran Diaconate:  Report and Recommendations of the Entrance Rite Discernment Group, 2020. Read.
Called to Transformative Action: Ecumenical Diakonia
April 2018

Read. Use the Study Guide. 
The Deacon in the Worshipping Community
By Deacon Michael Jackson, 2018
Read.
Exodus from Privilege: Reflections on the Diaconate in Acts
By The Rt. Rev. Thomas E. Breidenthal
Looks at the transitional diaconate conundrum, saying that the transitional diaconate
expires upon priesting.

Published in The Anglican Theological Review, 2013. Shared with permission.
​Read/Download. 
Prophetic Diakonia: For the healing of the world
Johannesburg, South Africa
The Lutheran World Federation, Nov. 2002
Read.
Diaconate as an Ecumenical Opportunity
The Hanover Report of the Anglican-Lutheran International Commission. Anglican Communion Publications. 1996
Read.
The Ministry of the Deacon
Anglican-Lutheran Perspectives. Nordic Ecumenical Council. 1999
Read.
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AED is a membership association of persons and dioceses within The Episcopal Church whose mission is to increase participation and involvement of all baptized persons in Christ's diaconal ministry, especially by promoting and supporting the diaconate.
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