A quiet invitation

Read together this September.

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A Women's Bible Study

Come to the text with everything you have.

Women of the Word is a study group for women who want more than a devotional — who are ready to sit with hard passages, ask honest questions, and let Scripture form them at depth.

Why this study exists

Serious study is not unfeminine. It is faithful.

For too long, women's Bible study has been handed a shorter ladder — more feelings, fewer footnotes. Women of the Word is built on a different conviction: that women are capable of rigorous exegesis, that the original languages reward attention, and that theology is not an accessory to faith but its backbone.

We move slowly through one book at a time. We ask what the text meant before we ask what it means to us. And we do it together — which turns out to make it warmer, not colder.

How it works

One book. Eight weeks. One table.

Each study runs for eight weeks, focused on a single book of Scripture. Groups meet weekly for ninety minutes — sixty in the text, thirty around the table.

Read the week's passage

Each participant reads the assigned chapters slowly, twice — once for narrative, once for observation. No study Bible required.

Dig in together

The group works through prepared questions touching context, grammar, theology, and application — in that order, always.

Carry it into the week

Each session closes with a single verse to memorize and a question to sit with until next time.

The foundation

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom.

Colossians 3:16

Current study — Autumn 2026

The Letter to the Romans

Paul's most systematic letter is also his most personal. We'll read it in four movements — the human condition, justification by faith, life in the Spirit, and the mystery of Israel — pausing long enough at each to feel its weight.

No prior theology training needed. Curiosity and a Bible are the only prerequisites.

Open Bible with handwritten notes in the margins

From the study

“I finally stopped being afraid of Paul.”

“I had read Romans three times and still felt like I was missing something. Eight weeks in this group and I finally understood what the argument actually is. It changed how I read everything else.”

Deborah CraneWomen of the Word, Year 1

Join us

Pull up a chair at the table

Groups are small by design — eight to twelve women. Tell us your time zone and we'll match you with a group that's just beginning its next book.