Recommended Reading

 
Below you will find a selection of titles we recommend all our members read.

The Diaconal Ministry in the Lutheran Churches — A paper from the Lutheran World Federation, Brazil

Awakening to God's Call to Earthkeeping This document is in PDF format
  
An Epistle from the LWF Global Consultation on Diakonia This document is in PDF format
  
On the Table-Servers: Ministry in the Assembly by Gordon W. Lathrop This document is in PDF format

Seek Out Those Places: Rostered Ministry in the ELCA, a PowerPoint Presentation

What Is God Calling Us To Be – A Consultation on Vocation and  Service, A report to the ELCA Diaconal Ministry Community, February 5-8, 2007 This document is in PDF format

Report to Lutheran-Episcopal Coordinating Committee (LECC) This document is in PDF format
 
From Word and Sacrament: Renewed Vision for Diaconal Ministry by Rev. Duane Larson

The Cross in Context by Douglas John Hall

On What It Means to be a Public Church by Cynthia Moe Lobeda
 
Pathways to Recreating Religious Communities by Patricia Wittberg