There are certain things you expect to hear from a pastor. Comfort in hard times. Encouragement to stay the course. Maybe even a bold call to live according to Scripture.
What you don’t expect is a pastor standing up and declaring that the Bible itself is the problem.
But that’s exactly what happened when UCC Bishop Yvette Flunder, the senior pastor of City of Refuge United Church of Christ in Oakland, California, delivered a message for the Center for Public Theology & Public Policy. In it, she openly called the Bible “problematic” and argued that Christians need an entirely new testament to replace the ones we already have.
Yes, you read that right. A third testament. Because apparently two thousand years of Scripture just aren’t
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