Paula Gooder explores our ideas about heaven, what the Bible says about it, and how it challenges us to reimagine who we are and what the world might be.  

Paula Gooder and Richard Coles explore Jesus’ parables and their enduring power to shock, surprise and challenge us to live our faith in the 21st century.

Biblical Scholar Paula Gooder explores St Paul’s thinking about the essential place of the body in the life of faith,  and how it challenges us to live differently.

Paula Gooder explores the Lord's Prayer, saying that what Jesus gave us was not just a single prayer but a set of guidelines for how to pray and how to live.

David Hoyle celebrates the abundant, creative, disruptive gifts of the Holy Spirit and the Day of Pentecost.

Joan Taylor talks about the influences on early depictions of Jesus in art and what they tell us about what he did, or definitely didn’t, look like, and why that's important. 

Jarel Robinson-Brown introduces the life and work of James Baldwin, and explores how he can help us as Christians to ask ourselves what kind of world we hope for.

Biblical Scholar Dr Paula Gooder reflects on different characters who witnessed the events of Holy Week and Good Friday.

Selina Stone introduces political theology, asking what Jesus teaches us about how to be citizens in the 21st century. She explores what it means for churches and individuals, and draws particularly on her experience and practice of community organising.

Novelist Catherine Fox and Biblical theologian Paula Gooder talk about the importance of stories in understanding ourselves, the world, faith and even God. They talk about their writing lives, the power of good stories to change us, and explore some of their favourite Bible stories.

Richard Reddie explores Dr Martin Luther King Jr's profound and subtle theology, philosophy and politics, and the challenge he leaves us to work for justice in our own time.

Pádraig Ó Tuama introduces his book In the Shelter, and its themes of how stories and language can help us to negotiate our lives, our fears and our faith with authenticity and courage.  He tells stories from his own life and experiences, reads some of his poems and answers questions.

Eve Poole and Paula Gooder talk about AI and why it draws us into the big questions about existence. What does it means to be human? What is a soul? What really matters about human life?

Anna Rowlands reflects on Pope Francis' papacy.

Graham Usher explores why so many of us encounter the presence of God in landscapes, and also key moments in the Bible where people encounter God in the natural world. In particular, he talks about what mountains mean to him and what they signify in the Bible: places where heaven and earth meet. 

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