Oak Hill is eager to resource church leaders and church members, convinced that careful theological reflection supports the worship and ministry of the church. On this page you will discover a whole range of offerings. You can read a blog post or find out about our Podcast or Primer publication. And you can learn about and sign up for our regular events like Equip and our annual School of Theology.
There are opportunities here to spend a few minutes or a few hours digging a little deeper into theology and its significance for ministry. If you’d like to go deeper still, you might be interested in our Flexible Learning modules.
Join Tim Ward and Eric Ortlund for monthly conversations about theology and ministry. Available now on Youtube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music & Audible.
Equip is a series of standalone teaching events designed to help church members and ministry teams connect theology to real life. Each event runs on a Thursday evening and is repeated on a Saturday morning. These high quality and accessible teaching sessions, open up areas such as biblical theology, ethics and discipleship.
The annual Oak Hill School of Theology is for anyone in Christian ministry seeking to deepen and strengthen their exegetical, biblical, theological and practical grasp of key doctrines, and help them apply what they have learned to ministry in the real world.
Primer is a resource co-published by Oak Hill and FIEC (Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches) designed to equip and sustain church leaders in theological reflection. Every issue provides an 80-page overview of one topic, covering contemporary debates, historical perspectives and pastoral implications.
If you’re considering gospel ministry within the Church of England, whether ordained or not, we have drawn together a helpful list of organisations and resources that will help you as you think and pray it through.
Church history traditionally sits alongside biblical studies, systematic theology, and practical theology as one of the four main areas for study and reflection. And yet, unlike the other three, which all have a fairly straightforward and obvious relevance for the training of future church leaders, the need for church history sometimes seems less obvious. So, why do we bother with it?
“Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes” is the very last thing Job says to God. It’s only when we take into account everything else Job has said up to this point that we can understand why it matters so much, and why we might find ourselves saying something similar, and similarly beautiful.
Following the news that former Oak Hill Principal Gordon Bridger went to be with the Lord just before Christmas, we asked one of his students, Mike Smith, now vicar of St John’s Hartford, to share some memories of him.
I loved my time at Oak Hill and think it is a great resource and blessing to the wider church.”
Revd Tony Heywood
Team Vicar, Thetford Ministry & former student
