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The Rev'd Ann Holmes Redding is an Episcopal priest. She was one of the first female Episcopal priests I met when I became an Anglican, as she was attached at Holy Apostles on Ninth Avenue in Manhattan. She is a great preacher and a good priest and celebrant.

She now has become slightly controversial, as she believes that the is both Christian and Muslim. The story is here.

I am conflicted. I would not deny anyone their own faith journey, however unconventional. But I find it difficult to accept that a person can be, as she says, "100 percent Christian and 100 percent Muslim."

In additional to her personal journey of faith, this situation will play right into the hands of the right-wing nutcases who believe that the Episcopal Church in general has gone off its trolley. Ann's bishop, the Rt Rev'd Geralyn Wolf, Bishop of Rhode Island, has inhibited Ann from priestly orders for a year while they both think about the situation.