"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: