Paula Gooder: Why your imagination is underrated

Your imagination isn't just a mental screensaver, spooling out randomly when you're not using your brain. It's the bit of you that reflects the Creator, the God who spoke everything out of nothing. When you imagine things, you mimic your heavenly Father – bringing new ideas, artworks, solutions, and stories into being.

Theologian and lecturer Paula Gooder joins Paul and Grace to chat about how we can use that amazing gift more intentionally – and particularly how our imaginations can light up the way we read the Bible.

Rather than treating Scripture as a textbook or instruction manual, if we let it spark our imaginations, it can speak to us with a whole new power – engaging our emotions as well as our intellect.

Whether you're a committed imagineer or aren't even sure you have an imagination, this episode will change the way you think about the creative mind God gave you.

Dr Paula Gooder is Chancellor of St Paul’s Cathedral in London.