Jennifer Lynne Moberly ( McClure; born 1962) is a retired Anglican cleric in the Diocese of Durham and a theologian based at Durham University.
Life and career Moberly was born in 1962 to Bonnie Joan (née Smith, 1931–2025) and the Reverend 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. Prior to her relocation to England and her career in the church, Moberly was a professional singer in Vienna for 12 years.
Moberly trained for ministry at Cranmer Hall, Durham, an evangelical Anglican theological college, from 1998 to 2001. She was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 2001 and as a priest in 2002. 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.
Moberly completed her PhD in 2009 at Durham University supervised by Robert Song. Her thesis was titled "The virtue of Bonhoeffer's ethics: a study of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Ethics in relation to virtue ethics". 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.
She is currently based in Durham, England, and is married to the theologian R. W. L. Moberly, also an academic at Durham University. They have two children.
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