Update on Mohammedan Episcopal Priestess

Update on Mohammedan Episcopal Priestess July 7, 2007

Here’s an update on that story of the priestess who “converted” to Islam …

The Rev. Ann Holmes Redding, a local Episcopal priest who announced she is both Muslim and Christian, will not be able to serve as a priest for a year, according to her bishop.

During that year, Redding is expected to “reflect on the doctrines of the Christian faith, her vocation as a priest, and what I see as the conflicts inherent in professing both Christianity and Islam …”

Redding says she understands that “the last thing the church needs to deal with at this time is this type of doctrinal dispute. I wish it could’ve been at a more convenient time. But as far as I know, I am responding to God’s will and God’s timing.”

For her part, Redding said she didn’t feel a need to reconcile all the differences between the two faiths but felt that at the most basic level, they are compatible.

She believes she has not violated any of her baptismal or ordination vows. And “since entering Islam,” she said, “I have been, by my own estimation, a better teacher, a better preacher and a better Christian.”

The whole story.

Thanks to FWD from blog reader, Callie.


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