{"id":2408,"date":"2007-06-19T07:52:52","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T12:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/19\/on-being-a-muslim-and-a-christiannot\/"},"modified":"2007-06-19T07:52:52","modified_gmt":"2007-06-19T12:52:52","slug":"on-being-a-muslim-and-a-christiannot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/on-being-a-muslim-and-a-christiannot\/","title":{"rendered":"On being a Muslim and a Christian…Not"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtue Online<\/a> | David Virtue | June 18, 2007<\/p>\n

First came the irregular ordination of women to the priesthood, and then homosexual behavior was deemed acceptable including the ordination and consecration of an openly avowed homosexual to the episcopacy, concomitantly with same sex blessings for all. The elastic band of The Episcopal Church’s theology has been stretched to its limit with the announcement that the Rev. Dr. Ann Holmes Redding, an Episcopal priest and theologian in the Diocese of Olympia, has become a practicing Muslim.<\/p>\n

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Short of digging up a year old corpse in an Episcopal Church graveyard and marrying it to a liberal bishop of questionable beliefs while using the New Zealand Book of Common Prayer, have we now reached the final stage of public Episcopal blasphemy – the notion that one can be both a Christian and a Muslim at the same time? Has the elasticity of the Anglican Communion finally snapped?<\/p>\n

In an interview with the Rev. Dr. Ann Holmes Redding by Norah M. Joslyn, published in the Diocese of Olympia newspaper, Holmes told Joslyn, “The way I understand Jesus is compatible with Islam, and although there are Christians and Muslims who think I must convert from one to the other, the more I go down this path the more excited I am about both Christianity and Islam.”<\/p>\n

Redding credits her upbringing for early exposure to interfaith relationships. An African Methodist Episcopal minister baptized her but the only Sunday school she attended was Episcopalian. She attended a Unitarian youth group in high school when the Episcopal group disbanded. A cooperative community comprised of mostly Quakers, Unitarians and Jews near where she grew up influenced her.<\/p>\n

Her father was a prominent civil rights lawyer whose work brought him and the family into contact with people of many faiths.<\/p>\n

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