Today we listen to an episode of Ministry Monday from 2020 that celebrates the role women play in music ministry today. We hear the stories of Nancy Douglass and Janèt Sullivan-Whitaker, both active, longtime composers and pastoral musicians. It is a great way to start our celebration of Women's History Month.
SHOW NOTES
This episode originally aired on October 26, 2020. Click here to view the original episode.
For more on the topic today, listen to Ministry Monday episode #009 - Representing the Feminine Voice (featuring Sarah Hart, Kate Williams and Dolly Sokol) (released April 15, 2018) .
BIO- Nancy Douglass
Nancy Douglass has been a liturgical musician for more than 25 years in the capacity of cantor, choir member, psalmist, pianist, liturgist, and composer. She is currently a parishioner at Christ Our Light Parish in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Nancy is a board member for her local NPM chapter in the Diocese of Camden, and a presenter for diocesan liturgical ministry training sessions. Nancy is also the editor of NPM’s Pastoral Music magazine. You can find her music at musicbynancydouglass.com.
BIO- Janèt Sullivan Whitaker
Janèt Sullivan Whitaker, a native of Berkeley, California has continuously served in active ministry throughout the East Bay Diocese of Oakland since childhood. She is a talented cantor, keyboardist, percussionist, composer and clinician. She has presented workshops on cantor dynamics, lector formation, parish repertoire, song of the assembly and keyboard improvisation. Her music is published by OCP Publications in Portland OR, and GIA/World Library Publications in Chicago, IL. Her best-known OCP songs include Here at This Table, In Every Age, Day of Peace and As Christ is For Us. For 15 years she served as musician and catechist for the One Bread, One Cup Summer Youth Liturgical Leadership Conferences at the Saint Meinrad Benedictine Archabbey and School of Theology in Southern Indiana. In more recent years, she has been a featured speaker for days of renewal for women, catechists, and liturgical ministers. As a recording artist, she has composed, recorded and produced a number of CDs. Her most recent recording are Plenty: Songs of Hope For Our Time, which was released in December 2017, and Yulesong, music for Christmas, released in 2018.
In January, 2020, Janèt retired from her position as Director of Music Ministry for St Joan of Arc Parish in San Ramon, California. She has also served as Director of Music for All Saints Parish in Hayward, and Corpus Christi Parish in Piedmont. Janèt holds a BA in Music from CSU East Bay, and an M.T.S in Liturgical Theology from the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley. She was a 35-year veteran of active music ministry in the Diocese of Oakland, California.
Janèt resides in Hayward with Brian Whitaker, her husband of 36 years.
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