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She grew up in Cheyney, Pennsylvania. Her father was a noted civil rights lawyer in Delaware.
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Ann Holmes Redding
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Redding identifies with both faiths "100 percent," explaining that this is possible in the same way that she can be both an African American and a woman. Redding was placed under pastoral direction by Geralyn Wolf of the Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island, which has disciplinary authority over her, in July 2007. Following the 15 months of pastoral direction and six months of inhibition, Redding was deposed ("defrocked") by Wolf on April 1, 2009, one week after her 25th ordination anniversary.
Redding is a graduate of Brown University (Bachelor of Arts, 1976) the General Theological Seminary (M Division, 1983), and Union Theological Seminary (Doctor of Philosophy, 1999).
She has taught at Pacific Lutheran University, Payne Theological Seminary, and the Interdenominational Theological Center, among other institutions. She was visiting assistant professor at the School of Theology and Ministry at Seattle University from September 2007 through June 2008.
She is the co-author, with Jamal Rahman and Katheen Schmitt Elias, of Out of Darkness Into Light: Spiritual Guidance in the Quran with Reflections from Christian and Jewish Sources (Morehouse Publishing, 2009).
