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.

By Karen Hice Guzmán

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.

By Jasmine Obeyesekere Fernando

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.

By Jasmine Obeyesekere Fernando

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.

By Jasmine Obeyesekere Fernando

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.

By Jasmine Obeyesekere Fernando

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.

By Karen Hice Guzmán

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

By Jasmine Obeyesekere Fernando

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.

By Jasmine Obeyesekere Fernando

Interested in learning why we are a racially divided country? Ken Wytsma shows how our history impinges on the present and our role in reconciliation. 

By Jasmine Obeyesekere Fernando

How do you thrive in academia? Dr. Bieber Lake gives spiritual insight and practical help for faculty to effectively live out their calling as teachers and scholars. 

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