What can one truly say in this regard? This is an absolute illustration of the schizophrenia epidemic throughout much of the Christian world today. And for this “reverend’s” bishop to actually justify her being a member of Islam and Christianity, he ought to get defrocked…along with her. Is this what the Episcopalian church is coming to? It’s the laughing stock of the Anglican communion!
So, this woman is a “priest” in a church body that ostensibly confesses that Jesus is God, but is a member of a “faith” group that denies Christ’s divinity. She’s a “reverend” of a denomination that affirms the crucifixion, but an adherent to a religion that denies the resurrection. She is a “minister” in a church that professes the Old Testament and New Testament, but a believer in the Koran because the OT and NT are hopelessly corrupted by evil persons.
Is this not the public face of religious insanity? And the bishop justifies this heresy by claiming it is great for ecumenism? No objective truth there…at all.
There is no God but God….and Jesus is his Son.

“If you don’t know me, you don’t know the Father.” Jesus Christ

I have a friend who studied for the priesthood in the Episcopal church who once quipped, “The Episcopalian Church is broader than Christianity itself.” This episode seems to bear this out.
“What fellowship has light with darkness? What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever?” (2 Cor 6:14)

Is this not the logical outcome of denying the Word? I’m really
not at all surprised! Wonder how Luther would address this?!!

“She has never believed in the Christian doctrine of original sin, and for years she struggled with the nature of Jesus’ divinity, the Times said, concluding Jesus is the son of God insofar as all humans are the children of God, and that Jesus is divine, just as all humans are divine — because God dwells in all humans.”
Okay, so she’s not Christian, which is no great surprise. I suppose if we asked a Muslim who takes Islam seriously, he would tell us that she’s not really a Muslim either.
“…until she was laid off with two others in March, for budgetary reasons. The church insists the dismissal had nothing to do with her embrace of Islam.”
This might be the saddest part of the whole article: that this church wouldn’t tell it like it is and decry her apostasy. (If her “interfaith possibilities” were so “exciting”, why did she get canned?)
“She can’t explain why that led her to become a Muslim, but says ‘when God gives you an invitation, you don’t turn it down.’” This is just eerie. I have recently been reading C.S. Lewis’s “Perelandra,” a loose retelling of the Fall of Man from his Space Trilogy. Oddly, the Bent One (a.k.a. Satan) tempts the Queen (a.k.a. Eve) by telling her, among other things, that the reason Maleldil (a.k.a. God) forbade a certain act was to give her the opportunity to become truly herself by stepping out independently – in essence, the prohibition was a disguised invitation. After reading this over the weekend, I got up this morning and read “when God gives you an invitation, you don’t turn it down.” The Bent One himself couldn’t have said it better.

Touting the education of this so-called priestess is an attempt to give her credibility while masking her convoluted apostasy.
1Cor 1:19 For it is written, “I WILL DESTROY THE WISDOM OF THE WISE, AND THE CLEVERNESS OF THE CLEVER I WILL SET ASIDE.”
1Cor 1:20 Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
Islam believes that Christ was just a man, who died of old age and buried in Arabia. Attempting to claim an allegiance to two opposing views of the Messiah smacks of a personal agenda. Instead of spoiling for an argument with Christians, she should read the Scriptures for the answer to her quandaries. Unfortunately this also calls into question the true nature of the Episcopal Church. Is this denomination a true member of the body of Christ, or just another crypto-cult.

This poor deluded woman.
I wonder how long it will be before Rev. Redding;
A. Realizes how Islam gives permission to mistreat women around the world.
B. Recieves an ultimatum from her Imam that she must choose Christianity or Islam.
C. That her liberal political/theological ideologies are completely at odds with Islam.
D. That she will not be able to undermine Islam the way liberal theologians undermined Christian docrine in the Episcopal church.
Perhaps Rev. Redding should spend a year or two in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, or maybe even Iran (if they’d have her) and find out what real Islam is like.
What she encountered in Islam was something she would not find in the world of theological dilitants, doctrinal dabblers, and religious superficiality in which she traveled. In Islam she found people who have the courage of their convictions, borne out of a sincere trust in what they believe. Unfortunately she did not find the truth which has been in front of her for years. If this is an evdience of anything it is of the bankruptcy of liberal Christianity, wherein there is nothing sacred except the endless search for another experience.

Did I not just read in Concordia that a person can associate with the church for many years, can even be an officer in the church, but still not be part of the church. They are a member of the visible church, yet do not belong to the communion of saints. Now, Ann will become a real Muslim, a true beliver; she will surrender her independent will to a new god. Her fathers in Christ failed her miserably, filling her head with subjective realities based on ever-changing experiences. Now, in Islam, she will find certainty and a god that will never change.
She is just one of thousands of Episcopalian apostates. Her church (visable) helped her to find Islam by the intermediary of “interfaith experiences.” Soon they will know her no more. If Christ does not bring this lamb home, her loss will be charged to those shepards who lead her astray. There are some pretty nasty curses laid on false shepards. She will find everything she is looking for in her new faith, except salvation. Peter, do you love me … then, feed my sheep. Stay out all night till you find that one lost lamb and bring Ann home. Lord have mercy.

I just ran across this update about the Islamic Priestess of the Episcopalian Church from the Seattle Times:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003776789_webredding05m.html
Apparently she’s been suspended for a year to “think about it.”
An appearance of sanity, it seems.

Here is the “Rev” Redding’s Trinity Sunday sermon extolling the virtues of examining other faiths’ doctrines to back up what you’re believing about such things as the Trinity.
http://www.saintmarks.org/Sermons%20Etc/Redding061106.pdf
I wonder this sermon would stack up against the Wiken diagnostic.