WWC’s Recommended Reading List

Women & Work - Christian Perspective

• Women, Work, & Calling: Step into Your Place in God’s World by Joanna Meyer

• A Woman’s Place: A Christian Vision for Your Calling in the Office, the Home, and the World by Katelyn Beaty

• Called to Cultivate: A Gospel Vision for Women and Work by Chelsea Sobolik (Good for complementarian settings)

• Women and Work: Bearing God’s Image and Joining His Mission through our Work by Courtney Moore, editor

• Sacred Work: A Christian Woman’s Guide to Leadership in the Marketplace by Pegge Bodde

• Are Women Human? Penetrating, Sensible, and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society by Dorothy Sayers

• “Women and Work in the Old Testament”, Theology of Work Project

• “Women and Work in the New Testament”, Theology of Work Project

• Holy Ambition: Thriving as a Catholic Woman at Work and at Home by Taryn DeLong and Elise

  Crawford Gallagher

Faith & Work - Not Gender-Specific

• Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God’s Work by Tim Keller & Katherine Leary Alsdorf

• Kingdom Calling: Vocational Stewardship for the Common Good / Agents of Flourishing: Pursuing

  Shalom in Every Corner of Society by Amy Sherman

• Make Work Matter: Finding Meaningful Work in a Changing World by Michaela O’Donnell

• Working in the Presence of God: Spiritual Practices for Everyday Work by Denise Daniels and Shannon Vandewarker

• The Call: Finding and Fulfilling God’s Purpose for Your Life by Os Guinness

• Visions of Vocation: Common Grace for the Common Good by Steven Garber

• The Missional Disciple: Pursuing Mercy and Justice at Work by Redeemer City to City and Kimberly Deckel / Go Forth: God’s Purpose for Your Work by Redeemer City to City and Charlie Meo

• Work Matters: Lessons from Scripture by R. Paul Stevens

• Garden City: Work, Rest, and the Art of Being Human by John Mark Comer

• Embracing Rhythms of Work and Rest by Ruth Haley Barton

• Wisdom-Based Business by Hannah Stolze

• Workship: How to Use Your Work to Worship God (Parts 1 and 2) by Kara Martin

• Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling by Andy Crouch

• The Theology of Work Project’s website is packed with great resources, including easily

  readable commentaries on faith and work https://www.theologyofwork.org/

• On Work: Money, Meaning, Identity (Atlantic Editions) by Derek Thompson

Workplace Issues & Women’s Leadership

• You Should Smile More: How to Dismantle Gender Biasin the Workplace by The Band of Sisters

• Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live)

  by Eve Rodsky (Also a documentary on Amazon Video)

• Good Guys: How Men Can Be Better Allies for Women in the Workplace by David G. Smith & W.

  Brad Johnson

• Don’t Fix Women: The Practical Guide to Gender Equality at Work by Joy Burnford

• Find Your Leadership Voice In 90 Days: How to Show Up, Speak Up, and Stand Out With Confidence
  by Kadi Cole

• The First, the Few, the Only: How Women of Color Can Redefine Power in Corporate America by

  Deepa Purushothaman

• Life in Flux: Navigational Skills to Guide and Ground You in an Ever-Changing World by Michaela

  O’Donnell and Lisa Pratt Slayton

• When Work Hurts: Building Resilience When You’re Beat Up or Burnt Out by Meryl Herr

• Creating Cultures of Belonging: Cultivating Organizations Where Women and Men

  Thrive by Beth Birmingham and Eeva Sallinen Simard

Women in Scripture

• Tell her Story: How Women Taught, Led and Ministered in the Early Church by Nijay Gupta

• Worthy: Celebrating the Value of Women / Jesus and Gender: Living as Brothers and Sisters in

  Christ by Elyse Fitzpatrick & Eric Schumacher

• Jesus through the Eyes of Women by Rebecca McLoughlin

• Women Who Do: Female Disciples in the Gospels by Holly J. Carey

• The Mary We Forgot: What the Apostle to the Apostle Teaches the Church Today by Jennifer

  Powell McNutt

• Women and the Gender of God by Amy Peeler

• Phoebe: A Story and Lydia: A Story by Paula Gooder (fictionalized accounts of New Testament women based on scholar and theologian Paula Gooder’s abundant research)

Gender & Church

• The Making of Biblical Womanhood by Beth Allison Barr

• Half the Church: Recapturing God’s Global Vision for Women by Carolyn Custis James

• Malestrom: How Jesus Dismantles Patriarchy and Redefines Manhood by Carolyn Custis James

• Developing Female Leaders: Navigate the Minefields and Release the Potential of Women in Your Church by Kadi Cole

• Together in Ministry: Women and Men in Flourishing Partnerships by Rob Dixon

Gender & Culture

• Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez

• Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It by Richard V. Reeves

Faith & Work Resources for Children & Teens

• Her Story, Her Strength: 50 God-Empowered Women of the Bible by Sarah Parker Rubio

• The Creator in You / The Royal in You by Jordan Raynor

• Fertile Ground: Faith and Work Field Guide for Youth Pastors by Luke Bobo (Made to Flourish)