174. Jennifer Wakeling - 7 July 2024

Australian Women Preach

Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Mark 6: 1-6 - God of the ordinary

Jennifer Wakeling is a professional musician and educator who spent many years performing as a classical pianist but whose interest has extended in more recent years to the field of theology. Jennifer’s research interests centre on worship theology, music theology, and musical-liturgical semiotics, and they also include the theology of symbol. Her work has been published in Studia Liturgica and Australian Journal of Liturgy, and she recently contributed a chapter in Imagination in an Age of Crisis: Soundings from the Arts and Theology. Jennifer currently teaches piano and works as a faith and music ministry officer at a Catholic boys school in Brisbane – St. Joseph’s Nudgee College. She also regularly prepares the liturgy for her local church community – Pilgrim People. She is passionate about the education of local church communities seeking to develop and enrich communal worship.