There are an enormous number of podcasts providing helpful and thoughtful input on issues relating to theology and Christian ethics. This is my ongoing attempt to develop a catalogue of these using an Airtable database. There are currently approaching 150 different podcasts and over 27,000 episodes in the database with episodes being added regularly as they appear.

If you spot errors or gaps or wish to provide feedback or to suggest other podcasts please use the comments to do this.

The data is presented in two formats – a grid and a gallery – and each of these are able to be sorted and filtered by their various fields. In a gallery, clicking on any entry should open up a card with the details for that entry visible. In a grid, if you put the mouse next to the row number on the left side an expand record option should appear to get the same information. I hope to add more information on how to use the databases to find information but would suggest to find podcasts on a particular subject or relating to a particular person you filter the episodes database on its “Episodes” field and “Episodes Summary” field (the latter is obviously more detailed but not every podcast has a summary).

Podcasts (Alphabetically ordered by default)

Podcast Episodes (Most Recent first)

The default sorting of the gallery and the grid is by the date of each episode with the most recent episodes therefore at the top. If you wish to see which episodes have been added to the database most recently (including older podcasts) you should use the Sort option to sort by Entry Date.

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.