book club

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. 

Podcasts
November 19, 2024
By Miranda Zapor Cruz and Jasmine Obeyesekere Fernando
Miranda Zapor Cruz: Faithful Politics

Listen in on our fall book club interview as Women Scholars and Professionals book club host Jasmine Obeyesekere conducts an online discussion with author and professor Miranda Zapor Cruz where they talk about our primary citizenship in the Kingdom of God and how that relates to the important task of political engagement.

 

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
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.

Podcasts
January 12, 2023
By Felicia Wu Song and Jasmine Obeyesekere Fernando
Dr. Felicia Wu Song: Restless Devices

Sociologist Dr. Felicia Wu Song talks with us about digital habits, community, and spiritual formation in this exclusive peek into our fall book club.

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.

Podcasts
January 11, 2022
By Dr. Vinoth Ramachandra and Jasmine Obeyesekere Fernando
Dr. Vinoth Ramachandra: Sarah's Laughter

Listen in on an exclusive peek into our fall book club as Women in the Academy and Professions associate Jasmine Obeyesekere conducts an online discussion with author and theologian Dr. Vinoth Ramachandra where they discuss suffering, hope, and the Christian life.

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