{"id":13576,"date":"2026-04-22T11:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T16:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.faithfilled.church\/?p=13576"},"modified":"2026-04-22T11:44:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T16:44:00","slug":"lesbian-bishop-yvette-flunder-draws-backlash-for-saying-bible-needs-a-third-testament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faithfilled.church\/?p=13576","title":{"rendered":"Lesbian Bishop Yvette Flunder draws backlash for saying Bible needs a third testament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yvette Flunder, the lesbian leader of the City of Refuge United Church of Christ in Oakland, California, who is also the presiding prelate of\u00a0The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries, has drawn criticism for questioning parts of the Bible she finds \u201cproblematic\u201d and suggesting that they be removed.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yvette Flunder, the lesbian leader of the City of Refuge United Church of Christ in Oakland, California, who is also the presiding prelate of\u00a0The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries, has drawn criticism for questioning parts&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faithfilled.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faithfilled.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faithfilled.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faithfilled.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faithfilled.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.faithfilled.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faithfilled.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faithfilled.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faithfilled.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}