Ann Holmes Redding

The series kicks off with Muslim speaker Jamal Rahman on March 8, and is followed by Arabic and Kurdish interpreter Faiza Sultan, Christian pastor Terry Kyllo and Episcopal priest turned Muslim Ann Holmes Redding. According to Kevin Pearson, rector at St. Luke's, these dialogues reflect the heart and ...

Ann Holmes Redding, Ph.D, an Episcopal priest for 25 years who has been a Muslim since 2006 when Islam converged with her Christian faith and practice. Redding is founder of Abrahamic Reunion West, a non-profit committed to developing enduring relationships among Jews, Christians and Muslims ...

2007 Diocese of Rhode Island Bishop Geralyn Wolf (XII Rhode Island) inhibits Episcopal priest- turned Islam convert Ann Holmes Redding who was canonically resident Rhode Island but serving in Seattle. The African American priest was finally defrocked in 2009, one week after the 25th anniversary of ...

Ann Holmes Redding, president and founder of Abrahamic Reunion West, a nonprofit dedicated to peacemaking; Rupa Redding-Lallinger, professor of pediatrics and internal medicine at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; and the Rev. J.B. Redding, founder and CEO of Caring Hands, who gave ...

For an Episcopalian priest, the "epiphany" that Ann Holmes Redding had in the years following the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center was unexpected and unusual. She was not the only one thrown for a loop by her transformation. "I didn't know I would become a Muslim until the day before" she ...

But perhaps neither has paid as high a price for their unusual journey as has Ann Holmes Redding, who embraced Islam after serving for 20 years as an Episcopal priest. Her public embrace of Islam led to her being defrocked by the Episcopal Church in 2009 and thereby losing her ordination and her ...

SEATTLE, Washington (CNN) -- Ann Holmes Redding has what could be called a crisis of faiths. Redding had been an ordained minister for more than two decades when she converted to Islam. Ann Holmes Redding says she sees no contradiction in being both a Christian minister and a Muslim.

In a tremor atop Capitol Hill, but felt throughout Seattle's faith community, two women priests and an arts administrator have been severed from the staff at St. Mark's Cathedral. The Lenten shake-up in what St. Mark's Dean Robert Taylor described as a "magnificent team" resulted from a budget shortfall at the Episcopal ...