Redding, the Seattle priest, was ordained in Rhode Island and is under the leadership of Bishop Geralyn Wolf.
Wolf removed Redding’s collar for one year so the Seattle clergywoman could reflect on her thoughts, Ferrell said. Next summer, Wolf will revisit the case.
“My guess is that she’s got to decide what she’s going to do,” Ferrell said. “It’s hard to see her continuing on this path and staying in her pastoral position.”
Ferrell said he has no problem with lay people exploring different faiths.
“But as a representative Redding ought not to be doing that,” he said. “As a clergy person, she speaks on behalf of other people in the congregation.”
[i]”The Quran was written over 23 years as a dictation from the angel Gabriel,” Fattah said. “The Bible was written 300 years after Jesus left Earth.”[/i]
Wrong. The OT was completed 400 years before the birth of Jesus the Christ, the NT was completed within 40-50 years after the ascension. The Qran, on the other hand was not written until 600 years after the ascension. When it comes down to which one is a more trustworthy witness of the nature of Jesus, I’ll take the NT over the Qran ANY DAY.
Prophets convey Truth. For Islam, Issa-bin-Miriam was a prophet, the last before Muhammed.
Issa-bin-Miriam stated (repeatedly) that he was the son of God, and The Way, The Truth …
If he conveyed the Truth, he is indeed Savior of the World. If he did not convey the Truth, then he’s a liar, and cannot possibly be a Prophet. Either way, Islam looks silly.
A person may explore or inquire of multiple faiths. But a lay person cannot be a Christian (a follower of Jesus Christ; a “little Christ”) and be a Muslim. Two different gods. Because of the mutually excslusive claims made by both, any merging of the two is simply a new syncretistic religion.
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That conflict only occurs if you believe the NT to be an accurate witness of what Jesus said AND you take the Quran as accurate as well. In other words, if Islam claims that Jesus was a prophet, and that the Apostles got his teaching wrong and the Church corrupted whatever accurate witness there ways… THEN at least it is being consistent. I’m not sure many Muslims would say that the Quran and the New Testament are both 100% accurate–those that do would obviously incorrect based on the point you made.
The reality is, Dr. Redding is NOT a person who believes that Jesus is the Son of God, truly God and truly man. Thus, she really cannot claim to be a Christian–despite what she and her licensing bishop Vincent Warner proclaim. She makes those statements at the cost of the faith formation of all who came under her teaching at St. Mark’s Cathedral in Seattle where she was until just this past March (Tracie Simer, the [i]Jackson Son [/i] reporter does not seem to have all of her facts straight!)
Whether she is a Muslim–whether she actually believes and practices all of the five pillars, or duties, of Islam–is something yet to be determined.
If The Episcopal Church can declare an unrepentant, fornicating, adulterous man to be a bishop of the church and still claim to within the common life of the Christian community, then I guess it is possible to be Muslim and Christian.
Can you believe, really believe that this question is being asked and that we are listening? Oh, my, what a world we have in TEC!
I think Fattah needs to study his Koran to include the “Satanic” verses and the origin of the Koran. I was compiled after Mohammed’s death and anything that id not jive with the “correct” view at the time was destroyed. Not everything that “Gabriel” gave Mohammed is in the Koran
Sorry should have written “IT was”
Sounds like Episcopalians are moving to the right. Last year it was priests merging Paganism and Christianity. This year Islam and Christianity. From Polytheism to Monotheism – an improvement indeed! 🙂
(Just where does this leave Sophia and Isis?)
Next at an Episcopal Church near you might be a repeat of what Los Angeles is having.
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Indian Rite Mass to be offered at St. John’s, L.A.
An Indian Rite Mass will be celebrated at 2 pm on Saturday, October 6 at St. John’s Church, 514 W. Adams Blvd., in Los Angeles
The mass will be in the tradition of Bede Griffiths and the Indian Rite of the Church of South India. The Mass will include Arati (the Service of Light) and Kirtan (congregational chanting of the Holy Names). Music will be provided by the Temple Bhajan Band. Spiritual leaders of the Los Angeles Hindu community will be honored guests.
The service will be hosted by J. Jon Bruno, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles. Bishop Bruno will take this opportunity to ask for deepening dialogue with the leaders of the Hindu community and he will offer an historic apology for the religious oppression that has been imposed on Hindu by many Christians. The Diocesan Hindu-Episcopal Dialogue Group and the Commission on Ecumenical and Interreligious Concerns and its chairperson, the Rev. Dr. Gwynne Guibord, are sponsors of the event.
Celebrant and homilist for the Mass will be the Rev. Karen MacQueen, who is an oblate of Shantivanam Ashram, a Camaldolese Benedictine community in India, made famous by its former prior, Bede Griffiths.
An Indian vegetarian meal will be served after the Mass. For reservations, please contact Robin Spearman at 213.747.6285.