Our learning library

Below, you will find highlights from our extensive collection of films, podcasts and written resources.

Search keywords in our library to find exactly what you’re looking for – or use the filters to find resources by audience, theme and type.

Audience
Mark Oakley and Paula Gooder speaking from a table on the dais at St Paul's.
Film and video
Atonement
Bible
Good Friday
Holy Week
Jesus
Poetry
Redemption
Salvation
The cross
Holy Week

Scandal and Glory: The Cross in the Bible and Poetry

Paula Gooder and Mark Oakley explore the mystery, the glory and the scandal of the Cross. Through scripture and poetry, they open up something of what we might learn from it not only of sin and reconciliation but also of love and new life, of who Jesus really was, and also what it means to follow his call to take up our own cross.
Jessica Martin is a white woman with short blond hair, photographed in clerical shirt and in her house, sitting leaning on a table and smiling.
Written reflection
Candlemas
Light
Presentation
Simeon

Darkness and Light

Jessica Martin reflects on themes of darkness and light.
Carys, a white woman with short brown hair wearing a clerical collar, stands in a garden square in a city
Podcast
Poetry

Such a fast God: R. S. Thomas' Poetry and Faith

Carys Walsh introduces the great 20th century poet R S Thomas’s life and work, and his themes of mystery, doubt and searching for God. The recording was made live at a workshop at St Paul’s Cathedral and the poems read are not included for copyright reasons. Some of the poems referenced can be read on the Poetry Foundation website.
Malcolm Guite stands on the dais at St Paul's Cathedral, hand raised as he speaks, green altar cloth on the altar behind him.
Written reflection
Epiphany
Poetry

The Poetry of Epiphany

Poetry from Malcolm Guite to reflect upon the season of Epiphany.
Paula Gooder smiles at the lectern in St Paul's Cathedral. Behind her you can see the front of the quire and one of its lamps and a large white candle on its golden stand.
Film and video
Advent
Bible
Christmas
Faith
Jesus
Redemption

God With Us: Seeing the Christmas Stories with Fresh Eyes

The Christmas stories are some of the best-loved in the Bible, but their familiarity can mask their real, mind-boggling message. Paula Gooder unravels what these revolutionary stories really tell us about God, power, the poor, and the present day.
June Boyce-Tillman is a white woman with grey hair gathered in a bun, wearing a turquoise blue clerical shirt under a blue shawl. She is pictured sitting indoors in front of an exposed brick wall.
Film and video
Feminism
Hildegard of Bingen
Music
Mystics
Mystics

A Feather on the Breath of God: Hildegard of Bingen

The Rev Prof June Boyce-Tillman tells the story and explores the music and theology of the 12th century mystic Hildegard of Bingen. She talks about her innovative thinking about the natural world, medicine and music, and her importance as a female theologian and visionary.
A photo taken from the film of Anthony Reddie speaking in the Wren Suite at St Paul's Cathedral. Pictured standing at a lectern in front of a wall of exposed brickwork, he is a Black man wearing a striped shirt and a brown leather jacket.
Film and video
Bible
Black History Month
Race

A Prophet of Liberation: James H. Cone

Anthony Reddie introduces the life and work of James H. Cone, one of the greatest theologians of the 20th century, and explores his no-holds-barred liberationist Christian theology.
Paula Gooder speaking in St Paul's Cathedral
Film and video
Bible
Old Testament
Prayer

In Green Pastures: The Psalms in Prayer and Music

Paula Gooder introduces some of her favourite psalms and their themes of joy, lament, comfort and reconciliation, and reflects on how they can draw us closer to God. With live music from members of the St Paul’s Cathedral Consort performing settings of psalms from across the centuries and readings by Adjoa Andoh, actor and Licenced Lay Minister in the Church of England.