Books
This Risen Existence. The Spirit of Easter (Canterbury Press, due out Autumn 2009)

Read this book, and your Easter, and the weeks after it, will never be the same again. (The Good Bookstall)

Effortlessly combining anecdote, theological reflection, and serious biblical study, this book has something for everyone.... This Risen Existence will stretch your mind and your imagination (William Whyte, The Church Times)

A Way Through the Wilderness. God's Help in a Time of Crisis (Church House Publishing,2009)
 
This is a five session course for those desiring to explore their faith at greater depth. Paula Gooder is an experienced practical theologian who uses all her skills to encourage greater comprehension of the Biblical text, and this series, based on Isaiah 40, is meticulously structured to achieve that end. Yet it can be delivered by any member of a group – her guidance is enabling and reassuring. Each session offers a plan that is helpful but not restrictive, looking to the experiences of other group members to open their own windows of understanding. It is a course which groups may want to repeat in order to reap the greatest reward in Experiencing God’s Help in Times of Crisis, the book’s subtitle. I warmly recommend it.  (The Good Bookstall)

Reader Ministry Explored (with Cathy Rowling; SPCK, June 2009)

What a treasure this book is!  Anyone asking questions about the possibility of public ministry – lay or ordained – should read it.  Readers and clergy alike cannot fail to be encouraged, challenged and informed by this mix of theory and down-to-earth practice.  History, vocation, selection, training, lots about ministry and so much more, this is a resource well worth reading and one to which I know I will return again and again.  Robert Paterson, Bishop of Sodor and Man, Vice Chair of Theological Education for the Anglican Communion and Chair of the Central Readers’ Council for England and Wales.

LentWise: Spiritual Essentials for RealLife (Church House Publishing, 2008)

User-friendly, undaunting and profound. The author is an experienced and trustworthy guide on our journey through Lent. With her help, Lent will be a journey of delighted discovery and not a miserable, dutiful trudge. Jane Williams

Searching for Meaning. An Introduction to Interpreting the New Testament (SPCK, 2008)

In this excellent introduction, Paula Gooder acts as our erudite, reliable and ever patient guide. This impressive volume deserves to be on the bibliography of every serious student of the Bible. Dr Helen Bond, University of Edinburgh  This is a clearly written and extremely helpful introduction to many different approaches to the interpretation of the New Testament. ...It will become an indispensable tool and is greatly to be welcomed.'Richard A. Burridge Dean of King's College London and Professor of Biblical Interpretation" 

The Meaning is in the Waiting. The Spirit of Advent (Canterbury Press, 2008)

Shrewd observations and intelligent commentary are offered with a lightness of touch, so that the reader is drawn gently but compellingly to re-examine familiar texts and find in them fresh insights to ponder...It is an exceedingly good book, and well worth waiting with. Edward Dowler, Church Times. 

Only The Third Heaven?  2 Corinthians 12.1-10 and Heavenly Ascent (T&T Clark, 2006)

Hosea-Micah The People's Bible Commentary (BRF, 2005)

Exploring New Testament Greek: A Way In (with Peter Kevern, SCM 2004)

The Pentateuch: A Story of Beginnings (Continuum Biblical Studies series, December 2000; reissued February 2005).