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In response to several readers: No, I do not plan a comment on the Episcopal priest in Seattle who says she is also a Muslim. In part because commenting on Episcopalian foibles and follies is like shooting fish in a barrel. It seems unfair. What else is to be said about a church in which John Spong, who is celebrated for denying almost every article in the creed, is a bishop in good standing? In any case, the lady in Seattle said it all. Of her simultaneous adherence to Christianity and Islam she commented: \u201d\u02dcIt wasn\u2019t about intellect. All I know is the calling of my heart to Islam was very much something about my identity and who I am supposed to be.\u2019 It wasn\u2019t about intellect. This is a journal of ideas and it is beyond our competence to comment on a person who says she has no idea what she is doing. We have no personal or pastoral connection with her and therefore could not possibly comment on her problems with her identity or who she thinks she is supposed to be. It is of interest that she will, beginning this fall, be teaching the New Testament at Seattle University. But then that is a school \u201d\u02dcin the Jesuit tradition\u2019 and apparently is not about intellect either. And so, as aforesaid, we have no comment.\u201d\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
–Richard John Neuhaus, \u201cWhile we\u2019re at it,\u201d\u009d First Things 176 (October 2007), p. 75.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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