Online Resources

• The Book of Common Prayer
• Christian Discernment: Parting the Clouds of Unknowing -- Canon Renee Miller
• The Diaconate and Discernment - School for Deacons
• Listening Hearts Ministries
• Mission Works - Episcopal Church USA
• Office for Ministry Development - Episcopal Church USA
  • Sources of Financial Aid
  • Toward a Theology of Ministry
  • Vocation (archived)
• PlanAhead Online - Church Pension Fund
  Make sure that debt is not going to be one of your obstacles to ministry

Recommended Reading

• The Authority of the Laity, Dozier, Verna L., Washington: The Alban Institute,
  1988.
• Book of Common Prayer, The Church Hymnal Corporation and The Seabury Press, 1976.
• Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth, Foster, Richard, HarperSanFrancisco, 1988
• Deep Waters: An Introduction to Baptism, Micks, Marianne, Cowley Publications, 1996.
• Deeper Joy: Lay Women and Ministry in the 20th Century Episcopal Church, Thomsett, Frederica Harris, Church Publishing, 2005.
• The Diaconate, A Full and Equal Order, Barnett, James M., New York: Seabury
  Press, 1981
• The Deacon’s Ministry, Hall, Christine, ed. Leonminster, Gracewing, 1991. *
• Discerning Your Spiritual Gifts, Edwards, Lloyd, Cowley Publications, 1988.
• The Discerning Heart: Discovering a Personal God, Conroy, Maureen, Campion,
  1993
• Grounded in God: Listening Hearts for Group Deliberations, Farnham, Suzanne,
  et al. Morehouse, 1991
• A Hidden Wholeness:  The Journey Toward the Undivided Life, Palmer, Parker J., Jossey-Bass, 2006
• I Have Called You Friends: An Invitation to Ministry, Thew Forrester, Kevin, Church Publishing, 2003
• Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation, Palmer, Parker J., Jossey-Bass, 1999
• Listening Hearts: Discerning Call in Community, Farnham, Suzanne G.,
  Harrisburg: Morehouse Publishing, 1991
• Listening to the Music of the Spirit: The Art of Discernment, Lonsdale, David.,
  Notre Dame, Ave Maria Press, 1992
• Living on the Border of the Holy: Renewing the Priesthood of All, Countryman, L.
  William, Harrisburg, PA: Morehouse Publishing, 1999
• A Manual for Lay Eucharistic Ministers, Ely, Beth W., Harrisburg, PA:
  Morehouse Publishing, 1992.
• Many Servants: An Introduction to Deacons, Plater, Ormonde, Cambridge, MA:
  Cowley Publications, 1991.
• Ministry and Imagination, Holmes, Urban, Seabury Press, July, 1976
• Ministry in Daily Life: A Guide to Living the Baptismal Covenant, Grenz, Linda
  L. and Fletcher Lowe, editors, New York: Episcopal Church Center, 1996
• Models of Pastoral Ministry, Leech, Kenneth, *
• The Monday Connection: A Spirituality of Competence, Affirmation, and Support
  in the Workplace, Diehl, William E., San Francisco: Harper, 1991.
• On Being a Priest Today, Cocksworth, Christopher & Brown, Rosalind, Cowley Publications, 2004.
• The Once and Future Church: Reinventing the Congregation for a New Mission
  Frontier, Mead, Loren B., Washington: The Alban Institute, 1986.
• Practicing Resurrection: A Memoir of Work, Doubt, Discernment and Moments of Grace, Gallagher, Nora, Knopf, 2003
• The Scandal of Service, Vanier, Jean, Continuum 11/98
• The Servant Church, Booty, John, Wilton, CT: Morehouse-Barlow, 1982
• Servanthood, Sims, Bennett, Cowley, 1997
• Shared Wisdom, McKinney, Mary Benet, Tabor, 1987
• Total Ministry: Reclaiming the Ministry of All of God's People, Zabriskie, The Rt.
  Rev. Stewart G., Washington: The Alban Institute, 1995.
• Under the Unpredictable Plant: An Exploration in Vocational Holiness, Peterson,
  Eugene H., Eerdmans, 1992
• Weeds among the Wheat, Green, Thomas, Ave Maria Press, 1990
• The Wounded Healer, Nouwen, Henri , Doubleday, 1972
  * Out of Print