NOTE: Below, I credit Christopher Johnson, Anglican Investigator and proprietor of Midwest Conservative Journal, as having broken the Ann Redding story. I was subsequently informed by one Mrs. Jackie Bruchi that she beat Mr. Johnson to the punch, by a whopping THIRTEEN DAYS. My sincerest apologies to Mrs. Bruchi.
Noting that “Members of the Episcopal Church must brace themselves these days when they pick up the newspaper,” Dr. Albert Mohler goes on to comment on the case of The Rev. Ann Holmes Redding of Seattle, who claims to be both Christian and Muslim. CJ originally broke the story, and the swell has been building ever since:
This is yet another reminder of the basic principle that religious liberals can negotiate themselves to any position they desire. Once you commit yourself to a methodology of denying Scripture and orthodox Christian doctrine, you can delcare yourself to be a Christian and a Muslim, a Christian and a Druid, or a Christian and an Atheist for that matter.
The real shame in all this is that Rev. Redding is getting away with this while continuing to be an Episcopal priest in good standing. Adding insult to injury, her bishop, the Rt. Reverend Vincent Warner of Seattle, says that Rev. Redding’s declaration that she is both a Christian and a Muslim to be exciting in terms of interfaith understanding. Is there any hope for a church whose bishop considers heresy to be exciting?
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Dr. Mohler is right. She can’t be both a Christian and a Muslim. How could she when she isn’t Christian? I’m quite confident that there are those in the Islamic faith who don’t consider her a Muslim either. She can say that she is both Christian and Muslim but she is neither.