by Bill White & Brenna Rubio | Oct 31, 2021 | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Guest Posts
A note from b&b – We’re so honored that Isabel, a friend of ours from City Church of Long Beach, was willing to share her story with us today, of growing up as a pastor’s kid into her full self, including her sexual identity. As Isabel remarked...
by Bill White & Brenna Rubio | Oct 23, 2021 | Big Picture
Bill “I get so confused,” my friend on the phone was saying to me late Wednesday night. “You and Brenna keep telling me God loves me, but my family keeps telling me God hates me. I don’t know which one to believe.” My friend grew up going to big churches nearby...
by Bill White & Brenna Rubio | Oct 23, 2021 | Soul
It’s a big deal to us when you subscribe to the blog, so we created a gift to show our thanks! “5 Days of Subversively Praying the Lord’s Prayer” is meant to help us see, behind the centuries of tradition, just how disruptive and transformative...
by Bill White & Brenna Rubio | Oct 17, 2021 | Soul
Bill A cool May morning in 2013, I stood on a literal cliff’s edge, tears streaming down my face. Staring 300 feet down at the Pacific crashing against the shoreline and finally letting some honest questions rip through me, I was terrified. If I loosened my vice grip...
by Bill White & Brenna Rubio | Sep 18, 2021 | Partnership
When new people show up to our church on a Sunday morning, we regularly invite them to check out some of the other churches in our city. In fact, our “Visit Us” page on our website lists nine other churches nearby. So we’d like to do the same thing here. (Just want to...
