Jennifer Moberly

Jennifer Lynne Moberly ( McClure; born 1962) is a retired Anglican clergywoman in the Diocese of Durham and a theologian based at Durham University.

Biography Moberly was born in 1962 and the Rev Karl Eldridge McClure (1930–2017). Her father was a minister in the Southern Indiana Conference of the United Methodist Church. She studied at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, graduating with a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in 1984. She has held several positions, including as a curate of the Church of St Mary Magdalene in Belmont, taking part in the church's 150th anniversary in 2007. She also served for some time as a chaplain at St Mary's College, Durham. During her tenure, Moberly and other chaplains of other colleges at Durham University condemned the "International Burn the Koran Day" proposed by Pastor Terry Jones in 2010. She was also a tutor at Cranmer Hall, part of St John's College, Durham, where she taught on the topics of ethics and Christian spirituality from 2010 to 2022. It was subsequently published as a monograph by Pickwick Publications in 2013. Since completing her PhD, Moberly has remained as an academic at Durham and has supervised a number of doctoral and master's dissertations. Since 2022, she has been an honorary research fellow at Durham's Department of Theology and Religion.

Selected publications