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Papers and Reports on the Diaconate & Servant Ministry

Materials are listed chronologically, with most recent first.
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Ubuntu – A way of being: The theology of the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu
By Deacon Clelia Pinza-Garrity. Oct. 2022. Read.
The Diaconate in the Anglican and Lutheran Traditions: An Anglican Perspective
​By Deacon Canon Michael Jackson. January 2022. Read.

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The Diaconate Renewed: Sacrament, Word, and Service
By Deacon Canon Michael Jackson. July 2021. Read.
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The Deacon in the Worshipping Community: Liturgy and the Diaconate
By Deacon Canon Michael Jackson. July 2021. Read.
The Diaconate: Seeking an Ecumenical Consensus
By Deacon Canon D. Michael Jackson
Presented at DOTAC Series, May 2021. Read.
The shape of things to come, 2020 
By David Clark, British Methodist Diaconal Order
​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.
​The Issue of Sequential and Cumulative Ordination, Oct. 2020.  Read. Responses to this paper here.
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The Deacon in the Worshipping Community, 2018.  Read
​Towards a Renewed Diaconate, Nov. 2019. Read

Three papers by Deacon Canon D. Michael Jackson
Called to Transformative Action: Ecumenical Diakonia, April 2018. Read. Use the Study Guide. 
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.
The Ministry of the Deacon
Anglican-Lutheran Perspectives. Nordic Ecumenical Council. 1999
Read.
Diaconate as an Ecumenical Opportunity
The Hanover Report of the Anglican-Lutheran International Commission. Anglican Communion Publications. 1996
Read.
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Honorary Doctor of Divinity conferred on Canon Deacon Dr. David Michael Jackson, from the College of Emmanuel & St. Chad. Ordained in1977, Michael is the longest-serving deacon in the Anglican Church of Canada. Read.
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