Episcopal priest suspended for also being a Muslim

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
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. 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. 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."