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Muslim (Ex) Episcopal Priest to be interviewed on CBC

Apr 24th, 2009 by

Ann Holmes Redding, the Episcopal (USA version of Anglican) priest who thought she could be a priest and a Muslim at the same time, is to be interviewed during the last half hour of The Current this morning. I thought this might be of interest to some of our readers.

Posted in Anglican Communion

11 Responses to “Muslim (Ex) Episcopal Priest to be interviewed on CBC”

  1. 1
    Henry Troup says:
    April 24, 2009 at 6:59 am

    I heard the teaser and thought of emailing you – obviously, you’re out ahead of me.

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    Ellie M. says:
    April 24, 2009 at 8:06 am

    I just heard it. Apparently everyone who disagrees with her is “hostile” and “fearful” of the wonderful new truth she brings. And of course, no opposing viewpoint was presented. Typical CBC.

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    Maya says:
    April 24, 2009 at 8:47 am

    At a major conference of orthodox Anglicans in Toronto,
    late May 2008, the question was posed to the Bishop
    of Kaduna, Northern Nigeria, by an Anglo Catholic Priest, what he thought of an Epicopal Priest who had converted to Islam and was therefore now both a Christian and a follower of Islam.
    A bridge builder between the two faiths in his Muslim majority area, in whose Parish there was hardly a family who had not had a family member murdered because of their faith by radical Islamists, his answer was that, the two are mutually exclusive. If one is a true Christan he/she cannot be a follower of Islam. Likewise, if one is a true follower of Islam he/she cannot be a Christian. Therefore, in fact, this individual was nothing, neither one nor the other.
    Eastertide blessings.

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    Maya says:
    April 24, 2009 at 8:50 am

    Sorry for the mistake. The Conference in TO was in late November 2008 and not in late May.
    Blessings.

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    Steve L.- says:
    April 24, 2009 at 8:51 am

    In case you want to hear it again and again, check back with the Current’s Archive. Ahh! Information Radio, glad I don’t work there anymore, I HAD to listen to it all day long.

    They have a Twit connection too, isn’t that what you call it?

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    Ellie M. says:
    April 24, 2009 at 9:07 am

    Once was enough, thanks.

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    Kate says:
    April 24, 2009 at 9:52 am

    True confessions time – I didn’t bother to listen. Kudos to her bishop for defrocking her (after giving her a good long time to repent, I might add).

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    Ellie M. says:
    April 24, 2009 at 1:36 pm

    Her first bishop thought it was just fine, apparently:

    “Redding’s bishop, the Rt. Rev. Vincent Warner, says he accepts Redding as an Episcopal priest and a Muslim, and that he finds the interfaith possibilities exciting.”

    The unfrocking only came *after* a wave of orthodox outrage.

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    Kate says:
    April 24, 2009 at 2:57 pm

    No, Ellie, that isn’t accurate. Rev. Warner was the bishop where she was living and teaching, but the bishop she was accountable to (canonically resident under) was Geralyn Wolf, who took action very quickly to inhibit her.

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    Ellie M. says:
    April 24, 2009 at 3:46 pm

    The reporter got it wrong, then. Still, Warner was *a* bishop, and he had no problem with it.

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    Kate says:
    April 24, 2009 at 8:51 pm

    True enough.

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