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Home Front: Culture Wars
Episcopal priest suspended for also being a Muslim
2007-07-07
An Episcopal priest who announced last month that she is also a practicing Muslim has been suspended from the priesthood for a year, according to a media report.
A whole friggin' year without her stipend? She must be devastated.
The Rev. Ann Holmes Redding must take a year from her position at Seattle's St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral and should "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," the Rt. Rev. Geralyn Wolf, bishop of the Diocese of Rhode Island, wrote in an e-mail to church leaders.
"Given an entire year, she should be able to think of something."
Redding, a priest for 23 years, was ordained by a former bishop of Rhode Island and remains subject to discipline by that diocese. "I'm deeply saddened, but I've always said I would abide by the rulings of my bishop," Redding told The Seattle Times. "Since entering Islam," she told the newspaper, "I have been, by my own estimation, a better teacher, a better preacher and a better Christian."
Posted by:Fred

#15  Episcopalians, why do they hate Christianity?
Posted by: BrerRabbit   2007-07-07 19:27  

#14  She sound like the poster child for that song title, "You've got to stand for something or you'll fall for anything."

She's also an IDIOT.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2007-07-07 18:24  

#13  #2 Any chance of dropping her off in Wana to complete her education?

LOL ed, my choice #2 is Spin Boldak. lol

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A whole friggin' year without her stipend? She must be devastated.

Let see,
She's a self proclaimed "woman", a "muslime", a "Christian" and a "Priest".

And now "she" be out of work. hummm "she" could hire "her"self out then as an olde & ugly witch Call Person to make up for the pay cut.

any takers out there RBees?

/excuse me while I retch..rrrreeeetccchhhh
Posted by: RD   2007-07-07 18:18  

#12  This "reverend" may be many things, and I'm not passing judgment on any of them, except one. She is not now, nor has she ever been, a Christian.
Posted by: mcsegeek1   2007-07-07 16:14  

#11  As a career accountant, I find bank robbery greatly improves my financial expertise.
Posted by: Skunky Glins5285   2007-07-07 15:35  

#10  Might explain why she is a moonbat.
Posted by: JohnQC   2007-07-07 13:41  

#9  But for nearly her entire life, AnnÂ’s body has been home to unwelcome chemical imposters like DDT and PCBs. Her Pollution in People study results showed that she has 8.7 ppb DDT, a level high enough to put her in the top 25% of people nationwide. She also carries 1.5 ppb PCBs, again at the high end of national exposures.

Besoeker, doesn't this make her a WMD. What if one of her mosque mates strapped a suicide vest to her and put her in the space needle. The fallout would be widespread and would probably wipe out a nation of ants and frogs.
Posted by: Jack is Back!   2007-07-07 13:17  

#8  The burqa simplifies what to wear when she's feeling mooselimb.
Posted by: JohnQC   2007-07-07 12:17  

#7  What's interesting here is that the suspension didn't come from the Washington state bishop, in whose diocese she was operating, but from the female bishop to whom she was officially responsible.

That bishop, Geralyn Wolf is a convert from Judaism. Her conservative (Orthodox?) Jewish family totally disowned her when she was baptized, sat shiva as if she were dead. She has some personal appreciation for what conversion means - or doesn't mean.
Posted by: lotp   2007-07-07 10:36  

#6  Wodner how the other Muslims feel about her being "also Christian".
Posted by: gromgoru   2007-07-07 09:44  

#5  Islam is a predatory cult; any tolerance expressed by them is taqiyah. There isn't a single non oppressed minority in any Muslim majority state. And the persecution didn't start with 9-11.

Hey, its 7-7-7. I wonder if the carpet boys will give us something to remember the date?
Posted by: McZoid   2007-07-07 00:59  

#4  Bet you had no idea she is also a microbiologist and victim of chemical contamination.....

The Rev. Ann Holmes Redding sees this chemical contamination as a corruption of the sanctity of life. As an Episcopal priest and New Testament scholar, Ann believes our bodies are a gift from God and that we have a responsibility to care for them. But for nearly her entire life, AnnÂ’s body has been home to unwelcome chemical imposters like DDT and PCBs. Her Pollution in People study results showed that she has 8.7 ppb DDT, a level high enough to put her in the top 25% of people nationwide. She also carries 1.5 ppb PCBs, again at the high end of national exposures.
Posted by: Besoeker   2007-07-07 00:56  

#3  "I have been, by my own estimation, a better teacher, a better preacher and a better Christian."

Which tells us all we need to know about her powers of "estimation".
Posted by: Zenster   2007-07-07 00:55  

#2  Any chance of dropping her off in Wana to complete her education?
Posted by: ed   2007-07-07 00:47  

#1  This story was in the Seattle Times a while back...Rantburgers already did a meritorious job of working out on this PC, po-mo, oh-so-progressive nutjob. I just wish I'd been the one who came up with "I'm a floor wax and a dessert topping"!
Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo)   2007-07-07 00:40  

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