The Bishop's Daughter
by Tiffany L. Warren

List Price: $13.99
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780446195140
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Darrin Bainbridge is your typical playboy in need of love, but not yet ready. He is a freelance journalist trying to break his big story. After a visit from his mother, Darrin gets an idea. He has heard all kinds of stories about "Hollywood" ministers who hold their church services on television, live in nice houses, drive nice cars, and have lots of money and women. Darrin is disgusted by it all especially when his mother Priscilla starts shouting praises for Atlanta Bishop Kumal Prentiss. Darrin decides to go to Atlanta, become a member of the bishop's church, and expose him for the hustling fraud that he believes he is. He just never planned on falling in love with the Bishop's daughter.

Darrin suddenly finds himself torn between his new found friend and his possible big break.

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1. When Darrin decides to pursue his story, Shayna quotes Psalm 105:15, which says, “Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.” Are Christians prohibited from revealing scandal when it comes to church leaders?

2. Darrin cringes when Shayna mentions the word “relationship.” Do you know any relationship-phobes? Do they exist inside and outside of the church?

3. Emoni describes herself as “not pretty.” Do you think she’s being honest with herself or just superficial? Has her attitude kept her from having relationships?

4. Read Romans 14:16: “Let not then your good be evil spoken of.” How does this apply to finances in the church?

5. Are Emoni, Tyler, and Sascha the typical pastor’s kids? Should a pastor’s children be held to higher moral standards than other youth?

6. Freedom of Life’s singles’ ministry has an unfair ratio of women to men. Is this an accurate depiction of singles’ ministries in general?

7. What are your impressions of Oscar and Dorcas? Would they make a good couple?

8. How did you feel when Genevieve presented her son to Bishop Prentiss?

9. Kumal Jr. is offended when Darrin and Emoni suggest a paternity test. Are his reasons rational? Do you believe he and Genevieve had good or bad intentions in coming to the church in Savannah?

10. Darrin calls himself a WIP Christian, as in “work in progress.” Is there such a thing? Were Darrin’s sexual missteps with Dorcas and Emoni realistic, or was Darrin simply not submitting to Christ?

11. Was Darrin right to conceal his story from Emoni? Do you think she would’ve understood had he told her instead of her discovering the truth?

12. When Emoni learns the truth about Darrin, she agrees to date Oscar. Do most women take the safe route in relationships, instead of following their heart?

13. Should Emoni and Darrin tell Bishop Prentiss the truth about Kumal Jr.’s paternity?

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