SUGGESTED READING FOR VOCATION AND MINISTRY
DISCIPLESHIP, VOCATION AND CALLING The Deacon’s Ministry [Ed. Christine Hall, Gracewing 1991] How to Find your Vocation Deacons and the Church [John Adair, Canterbury Press 2000] [John Collins, Gracewing 2003] Hearing God’s Call: Ways of Discernment for Laity For Such a Time as This: A Renewed Diaconate in and Clergy the Church of England [Ben Campbell Johnson, Eerdmans/Alban Books, 2002] [Archbishop’s Council, 2012] Called or Collared [Francis Dewar, SPCK 2000] READER MINISTRY Live for a Change [Francis Dewar, DLT 1988] Reader Ministry Explored The Road to Daybreak [Cathy Rowling and Paula Gooder, SPCK 2009] [Henri Nouwen, DLT 1989] Diverse Gifts: Varieties of Lay and Ordained THE RELIGIOUS LIFE
Ministries in the Church and Community Anglican Religious Communities Year Book [Malcolm Torry, Canterbury Press 2005] [Canterbury Press] Called to Love: Discernment, Decision Making and Refocusing the Vision: Religious Life into the Future Ministry [Barbara Fiand, Crossroad Publishing 2001] [Raymond Tomkinson, SCM Press 2012] Searching for God Hearing the Call: Stories of Young Vocation [Basil Hume, Gracewing 2002] [Jonathan Lawson and Gordon Mursell, SPCK 2014] New Habits Consider Your Calling [Isabel Losada, Hodder & Stoughton 1999] [Gordon T. Smith, IVP Books 2016] Unveiled: Nuns Talking Living Faithfully: Following Christ in Everyday Life [Mary Louden, Ebury/Vintage 1993] [John Pritchard, SPCK 2013] Sing a New Song: The Christian Vocation [Timothy Radcliffe, Dominican Publications 1999] THE PRIESTHOOD Finding the Treasure
The Widening Circle: Priesthood as God’s Way of [Sandra M Schneiders, Paulist Press 2000] blessing the world Selling All [Graham Tomlin, SPCK 2014] [Sandra M Schneiders, Paulist Press 2001] Steel Angels: The Personal Qualities of a Priest [Magdalen Smith, SPCK 2014] CHAPLAINCY
The Life and Work of a Priest Being a Chaplain [John Pritchard, SPCK 2007] [Miranda Threlfall-Holmes and Mark Newitt, SPCK 2011] Being a Priest Today [Christopher Cocksworth & Rosalind Brown, CHILDREN AND YOUTH MINISTRY Canterbury Press 2002] The Christian Priest Today Youth Ministry: A Multi-faceted Approach [Michael Ramsey, SPCK Classics] [Ed. Sally Nash, SPCK 2011] Priests in a People’s Church PIONEERING MINISTRY [George Guiver, SPCK 2001] On Priesthood: Servants, Shepherds, Messengers, How to Pioneer Sentinels and Stewards [David Male, Church House Publishing 2016] [Stephen Cottrell, Hodder & Stoughton 2020] Pioneer Ministry and Fresh Expressions of Church [Angela Shier-Jones, SPCK 2009] THE DISTINCTIVE DIACONATE OTHER RESOURCES Being a Deacon Today [Rosalind Brown, Canterbury Press 2005] Talk Calling (Discussion Cards for 14-18 Year Olds) [Emma Sykes, CPAS]