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Episcopal Muslim Priest Suspended

July 6, 2007 |

She announced that she was a Muslim and Episcopalian. It appears that even for the Episcopal church this is just too much to bear. There appears to be no doctrinal statement along with the suspension. One would think that they would make a clarification why this is impossible. No word yet but perhaps one of our readers may know.

She has maintained that she did not violate any of her baptismal or ordination vows.

“Since entering Islam,” she told the newspaper, “I have been, by my own estimation, a better teacher, a better preacher and a better Christian.”

Reaction has been deeply mixed, with some supporting her practice of two faiths and others questioning whether both could be practiced by any individual, much less a Christian church leader.

“I am both Muslim and Christian, just like I’m both an American of African descent and a woman. I’m 100 percent both,” she told The Times in June.

Since being suspended from the priesthood, Redding said, she realizes many believe “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.”

 I would think that a doctrinal dispute is exactly what they need.

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