Book Clubs

Interested in delving deeper to Christian thinking on vocation or important issues of our time? Gather a few folks and host a book club! Your book club might be in person with colleagues or online with friends. You may find some people are more open to reading a book and discussing it than coming to a Bible study. To help you get started, below are discussion guides (all from Women Scholars and Professionals' previous online book clubs) that you can easily adapt if meeting in person.

Book Clubs
February 01, 2025
By Jasmine Obeyesekere Fernando
Habits of Hope: A Discussion Guide

How can the "stuff" of our work in academia be instruments of hope? The authors help us understand and practice the callings inherent in the specificities of our work. 

Book Clubs
October 01, 2024
By Jasmine Obeyesekere Fernando
Faithful Politics: A Discussion Guide

What does Christian political engagement look like? Miranda Zapor Cruz shows us how our primary citizenship in the Kingdom of God must shape our political attitudes and behavior. 

Book Clubs
August 19, 2024
By Karen Hice Guzmán
Women, Work, and Calling: A Discussion Guide

What does it mean to be called by God and then shaped in and for the work? Joanna Meyer provides a theological framework for women's work and influence and offers resources for the challenges of working life.

Book Clubs
September 01, 2023
By Jasmine Obeyesekere Fernando
Agents of Flourishing: A Discussion Guide

Are you troubled by the brokenness in every aspect of human life? Amy Sherman offers a vision of how our own passions, expertise and work can be used for God’s purposes in our world.

Book Clubs
February 01, 2023
By Jasmine Obeyesekere Fernando
Your Calling Here and Now: A Discussion Guide

Do you find it hard to discern your calling in the present, caught up either in nostalgia or hopes for the future? Gordon Smith shows us how God calls us in the "here and now" of our lives, however complex our immediate circumstances might be.

Book Clubs
September 27, 2022
By Jasmine Obeyesekere Fernando
Restless Devices: A Discussion Guide

Have our collective souls been spiritually shaped by the digital industry such that we are becoming people very different to the traditional Biblical ideas of personhood? Felicia Wu Song explores our profound attachment to the digital and gives us perspective to steward our digital habits well without giving us a set of rules to follow.

Book Clubs
January 26, 2022
By Jasmine Obeyesekere Fernando
Vocation Across the Academy: A Discussion Guide

What is the purpose of higher education? How can we share Christian understandings of Calling and Vocation in ways that resonate with all stakeholders in the Academy? Thirteen professors motivate us to look afresh at our institutions.

Book Clubs
November 14, 2021
By Karen Hice Guzmán
Power Women: A Discussion Guide

How do Christian women navigate the call to both the academy and motherhood? Explore this discussion guide on Power Women.

Book Clubs
September 26, 2021
By Jasmine Obeyesekere Fernando
Sarah's Laughter: A Discussion Guide

Do you struggle to understand God’s love amidst pain and suffering? Vinoth Ramachandra shows how God’s own heart of suffering allows us both to lament and to have hope.

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