Can you be Chrislamic?

Can you be a Christian and a Muslim? I suppose you can to a point. I tried it for many years and was good at it. So good, in fact, that it enabled me to discern the real differences between them. Rather than be both, which, in the end, was indecision, I was able to see the differences more clearly. Indecision is really being self-centered. How? We want things to be our way.

But can you be an imam or minister as both? Not really, unless you create your own rules, kind of a religion of one.

The issue isn't Ann Holmes Redding personally choosing to be both. That is her choice. None of us can really judge. But with a position such as minister the radical nature of her choice becomes the focus (or self-promotion) and would most likely cause issues with her "flock" being able to see her true spirituality. Unless those who follow her truly understand her choice, the duality would be a distraction, a denial of one or the other. By choosing both, she isn't either.

Not that it's so cut and dry. We all have dualities raging in us due to our common humanity. Perhaps there is a continuum from Christianity to Islam on which Ms. Holmes is riding. Or is this simply Zeno's paradox? At some point, it would seem, there is a clear break.

The big question I would ask her is why she cannot let go of Christianity.

But her honesty and boldness is refreshing and could possibly open up avenues of dialogue.