Rev. Elder Nancy Wilson, moderator of the MCC. Read samples of her sermons online.

Nancy Wilson to Preach in Chapel
Oct. 25, 10:30 a.m. in Kresge Chapel

Rev. Elder Nancy Wilson, moderator of the Metropolitan Community Church, will preach in weekly chapel on Thursday, Oct. 25, at 10:30 a.m. A brownbag lunch in Haddon will follow.

Rev. Wilson was installed as only the second Moderator of the MCC denomination in 2005, succeeding the church's Founder and long-time Moderator Rev. Troy Perry.

A former United Methodist, Wilson has pastored MCC congregations in Florida, Massachusetts, Michigan and California, including the Metropolitan Community Church of Los Angeles, the Founding Church of the MCC movement.

Wilson is the author of Our Tribe: Queer Folks, God, Jesus and the Bible (Alamo Press, 2000), co-editor with Fr. Malcolm Boyd of Amazing Grace: Stories of Lesbian and Gay Faith (Crossing Press, 1991), and a contributing author to Race and Prayer edited by Malcolm Boyd and Chester Talton (Morehouse Press, 2003).

Wilson has a long commitment to ecumenical work and human rights. During 1979-1999, she served as MCC's Chief Ecumenical Officer, representing MCC at the National Council of Churches and the World Council of Churches. In 1987, she represented MCC as an ecumenical observer at the Bilateral Dialogue of the Roman Catholic and Lutheran Churches in Columbia, South Carolina, where she met Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI.

She has also been active on behalf of HIV issues, prisoner treatment programs, and women's rights. She is the founder of the MCC Conference for Women in Professional Ministry. In 1979, she participated in the first-ever meeting of gay and lesbian religious leaders at the U.S. White House during the Carter Administration.

Founded in 1968, MCC is a Christian denomination with more than 43,000 members in 23 countries and a primary, affirming ministry to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people of faith.