[Magdalen] Baptism question

[Grace Cangialosi]

I have friends who consider themselves to be Buddhist and Episcopalian or Quaker and Episcopalian, and if I had stayed in DC, I would have joined the ecumenical Church of the Saviour, where I had been worshiping on Monday evenings for about five years and had preached and celebrated. There was no conflict, and many of their members belonged to, or were clergy in, mainline denominations. My bishop was fine with it.

> On Apr 11, 2019, at 4:42 PM, Allan Carr via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
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> A number of us at All Saints, Pasadena, converted to Zen Buddhism and practiced it at the Zen Center in LA.. Nobody questioned our adherence to both faiths.
> My recollection is that an Episcopal priest elsewhere who converted to also being a priest in Zen had his Episcopal orders questioned. I don’t know what happened in that case.
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> Allan Carr
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>> On Apr 11, 2019, at 11:30 AM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I've had three friends who converted to Judaism.
>> All three were women.
>> All three had been baptized as infants.
>> All three signed papers re: abjuration of their baptism.
>> All three submitted to the mikveh is the presence of rabbis (although the
>> rabbis sat in an adjoining room with the door open so they could hear the
>> splashing and the prayers).
>> One of them moved to Israel where she was not accepted as Jewish and that
>> was a Problem for her.
>> One of them appears to be passing on into Buddhism.
>> The third seems to be very happy in her faith and her family.
>> -M
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