A Deacon's Preaching

"Diaconal preaching is always preaching toward the world."

With those words, Deacon Chris Beukman frames this luminous collection of homilies spanning Advent to Pentecost and beyond.

Here are sermons that draw from prison cells and food pantries, hospital rooms and street corners, art museums and ancient monasteries. They tell the truth about grief, injustice, and human frailty-and yet, again and again, they reveal hope. Beukman preaches like a pastoral companion: honest, tender, courageous, and rooted in the Gospel's call to serve Christ in the poor and forgotten.

In these pages you will find:

• Reflections shaped by the Revised Common Lectionary

• Insights into the ancient and modern Diaconate

• Stories of compassion, courage, and everyday holiness

• Explorations of Scripture through art, poetry, music, and lived experience

• A vision of Christian faith centered in justice, humility, and love

A Deacon's Preaching is an invitation to a more spacious spirituality-one where Scripture meets real life, and where the church remembers that its mission begins outside its own walls.

Deacon Chris Beukman, D.Min., is an Episcopal Deacon in the Diocese of Massachusetts, where he has served congregations in Quincy, Walpole, Franklin, Westwood, Holbrook, and North Easton. Born and raised in the Netherlands, he studied at Harvard Divinity School, completed extensive chaplaincy work in Boston's hospitals, and has ministered as Archdeacon for Deployment and Pastoral Care. His preaching draws on decades of pastoral experience-in prisons, retirement communities, food ministries, and parish life-and is shaped by a lifelong love of music, art, Scripture, and social justice. He lives in Massachusetts with his family. $34.95