Last Updated on 7 December, 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 theologians from a range of theological and denominational positions and areas of theological expertise which contained about 9,000 videos. I have recently returned to this project and worked out how updating and expanding the database can now 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.

There are now over 25,000 videos in the database connected to over 400 theologians. Most of these are in English (occasionally with other language subtitles so non-English titles are often English-language videos) but a small number in other languages. With a small number of exceptions these are videos of the theologians themselves presenting or being interviewed ie primary materials rather than others presenting or discussing their work.

You can access interfaces giving details of the theologians in the database here (ordered by Christian name) and here (ordered by surname).

In contrast to earlier versions of this page, I am now using Airtable interfaces to give access to the data. One should appear below but the large size of the database means this may take a while to load. Other interfaces are therefore given as links which will open in a new page but again you will need to allow time for them to appear. I hope the interface is fairly self-explanatory but there is a brief guide underneath the display below, explaining its main features.

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 comments here or better by using this feedback form which is also linked in the top right of the interfaces. Suggestions are welcome on any matters but particularly 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).

The interface below can also be directly accessed here and there is an alternative interface with drop-down filters here.

For quick access to the most recent additions use this interface.

Guide to using the interfaces

• Any article can be accessed by clicking the blue button marked “Resource”.
• Clicking any article provides more details about the article.
• The base can be searched using the magnifying glass on the top row at the far right.
• The presentation layout can be changed by clicking on the Gallery icon and choosing another format from the drop-down menu that appears: List, Grid or Calendar.
• The order of the articles can be altered by using the Sort command and sorting by one or more different fields. In List or Grid layout it is also possible to group eg by year or by tag.
• In some interfaces there are tabs with pre-defined filters at the top left-hand side
• The base can be filtered by using the Filter command and selecting one or more field and criteria
• In some interfaces there are also one or more drop-down filter options on the left-hand side. 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.
• You can access a larger version showing more records at once by clicking at the bottom right of the layout.