James Emery White (born December 20, 1961), is the founding and senior pastor of Mecklenburg Community Church in Charlotte, North Carolina; President of Serious Times, a ministry that explores the intersection of faith and culture and hosts ChurchandCulture.org; ranked adjunctive professor of theology and culture on the Charlotte campus of
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary where he also served as their fourth president; and author of more than 20 books that have been translated into ten languages.
Mecklenburg Community Church began with a single family and has grown to more than 10,000 active attenders.
White holds a B.S. degree in public relations and business from
Appalachian State University
Appalachian State University (; Appalachian, App State, App, or ASU) is a public university in Boone, North Carolina. It was founded as a teachers college in 1899 by brothers B. B. and D. D. Dougherty and the latter's wife, Lillie Shull Dough ...
and the M.Div. and Ph.D. degrees from the
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (SBTS) is a Baptist theological institute in Louisville, Kentucky. It is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention. The seminary was founded in 1859 in Greenville, South Carolina, where it was at ...
, where he received a Garrett Teaching Fellowship in both New testament and Theology. He has also done advanced university study at
Vanderbilt University in American religious history and continuing education at Oxford University in England, including participation in Oxford's Summer Programme in Theology.
White is the author of more than 20 books, including such
Gold Medallion nominees as ''Serious Times'' and ''A Search for the Spiritual'', ''
Christianity Today
''Christianity Today'' is an evangelical Christian media magazine founded in 1956 by Billy Graham. It is published by Christianity Today International based in Carol Stream, Illinois. ''The Washington Post'' calls ''Christianity Today'' "evange ...
'' book-of-the-year award winner ''Embracing the Mysterious God'', as well as ''The Prayer God Longs For'' and ''Rethinking the Church''. His most recent publications include ''Christianity for People Who Aren't Christians'', ''Meet Generation Z'', ''The Rise of the Nones'', ''The Church in an Age of Crisis,'' and ''What They Didn't Teach You in Seminary.'' He is also Distinguished Professor of Pastoral Ministry at
Anderson University, and consulting editor to Leadership Journal.
In November 2009, White signed an ecumenical statement known as the ''
Manhattan Declaration Manhattan Declaration can refer to:
* Manhattan Declaration: A Call of Christian Conscience, an American Christian cross-denominational declaration addressing a number of political issues in 2009
* Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change, a d ...
'' calling on evangelicals, Catholics and Orthodox not to comply with rules and laws permitting abortion, same-sex marriage and other matters that go against their religious consciences.
Manhattan Declaration: A Call of Christian Conscience
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External links
* http://www.mecklenburg.org/
* http://www.churchandculture.org/
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1961 births
American Baptist theologians
Appalachian State University alumni
Living people
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary alumni
Seminary presidents