Further reading and Resources

Diaconal Ministry

 

Conference report 2019 Diaconate and the Methodist  Diaconal Order

A Deacon in a Circuit? Contact MDO Centre

Diaconal Church: Beyond the Mould of Christendom (Epworth Press 2008) - David B Clark

Being A Deacon Today (Canterbury Press 2005) -  Rosalind Brown

Deacons and the Church (Moorhouse Publishing 2002) – John N Collins

  

Exploring Your Calling

How to Find your Vocation (Canterbury Press, 2002) - John Adair

Called or Collared (SPCK, 2000) - Francis Dewar

Invitations: God’s calling for everyone (SPCK 2000) – Francis Dewar

  

Rule of Life

Methodist Diaconal Order Rule of Life

Living faith day by day (Universe Publishing 2006) – Debra K Farrington

A life giving way (Continium 2006) – Esther de Waal

At Home in the World (Seabury books 2006) – Margaret Guenther

Sabbath as Resistance (Westminster John Knox Press 2017) Walter Brueggemann

 

Religious Order

The Lord as their Portion (W.B. Erdmans Publishing 2011) – Elizabeth Raply

The Religious Order (London Heinemann Educational 1973) – Michael Hill

Saved to Serve – the story of the Wesley Deaconess Order – E Dorothy Graham (out of print – available by courtesy of the MDO)