Last Updated on 15 September, 2025 by
Andrew Goddard
During the COVID lockdown, sensing there was a large amount of excellent theological material on YouTube, I started creating a database of YouTube theology structured around links to almost 250 theologians from a range of theological and denominational positions and areas of theological expertise. The plan had been to keep updating and expanding it but that did not happen until recently I discovered how this can be done in a more automated way thanks to AI helping me with areas beyond my expertise such as coding and API calls. I’m hoping this resource will therefore now be regularly updated and new theologians added.
Theologians
The theologians included are listed in the gallery below and also on this webpage. Although a few videos are videos relating to that theologian’s work (especially when the theologian is dead), the overwhelming majority comprise presentations by or interviews with the theologian themselves.
You can use the sort and filter tools to explore who is included, their main expertise, and how many videos there currently are related to them in the database.
Resources and Guide to Using the Database
A page with a full gallery of all the videos is available at this link and lower down the page is the key data from the database of the YouTube resource. This now has over 15,000 videos (compared to the original version with just under 9,000 videos, several hundred of which are sadly no longer available). Most of these videos are in English but some are in other languages or are recordings where the address is in English but there is translation into another language.
The data below is broken into 3 categories based on length (and then originally displaying the most recent videos first) in order to enable easier use:
- Brief clips of under 5 minutes
- Short and medium videos of between 5 and 45 minutes
- Long videos of above 45 minutes and extra-long videos of over 70 minutes
Each of these groupings is able to be filtered and sorted by the visible fields which include e.g. the exact length of the videos, the number of views, the date of uploading and (in some cases) a short description of the video.
By using the filter option the base is effectively searchable across the various fields which can be combined. For example you can:
- use key words in titles or descriptions (these are as they were posted on YouTube so sadly vary in their usefulness) such as names of biblical books, theological terms. This should enable you to find relevant videos related to, for example, euthanasia or Genesis without too much difficulty.
- combine filters to find, for example, all videos of Tom Wright which include Romans in their title or description.
- sort filtered results by any of the fields to see them in alphabetical order of theologian, length, number of views, date of uploading to YouTube etc.
Short Video Clips of less than 5 minutes
Videos of 5-45 minutes
Videos of more than 45 minutes
If you click on any record its card will open and you can see the details about that video.
This project is still very much a work in progress so please do come back to explore as it expands.
I’d really appreciate any feedback whether by email to theologyethics@gmail.com or better by using this feedback form. Suggestions are welcome on other theologians to add as I update it, how to present it better, links to any videos missed or that you think should be removed (perhaps because it is a duplicate or because the searching and triaging of so many videos will inevitably have led to some being wrongly included as obviously not every resource has been individually viewed before inclusion).
I hope to continue to develop this database and also to see how to make it available in other forms through this site.
