Both/and

Religion | Seattle priest takes ecumenism to a new level: Give me a collar and a headscarf | Mark Bergin

SYNCRETIST IN SEATTLE: Redding

A recent study from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found several general similarities in the beliefs of American Muslims and Protestants. Majorities from both groups, for example, take religion very seriously, believe society should discourage homosexuality, and consider their respective holy texts the actual word of God.

But as the study notes, Muslims and Christians maintain "distinctly different religious beliefs and practices." Most do, that is.

Ann Holmes Redding, a longtime Episcopal priest, took interfaith dialogue to a whole new level last month when she publicly claimed to be both 100 percent Christian and 100 percent Muslim. The former director of faith formation at Seattle's prominent St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral compared her dual loyalty to being both African-American and a woman.

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