Paula White-Cain continues to be a key spiritual and faith advisor to Donald Trump in 2026. On February 7, 2025, it was announced that she would lead the newly created White House Faith Office as a Special Government Employee and Senior Advisor, continuing her long-term advisory role.
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- Role: She serves as a Special Government Employee and Senior Advisor for the White House Faith Office, according to a 2025 announcement on the White House website.
- Background: She has been a spiritual advisor to Trump since 2002 and served as chair of the evangelical advisory board during his 2016 campaign, as noted on Wikipedia.
- Influence: She is known for her influence on faith-based initiatives and policy, including advising on the recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, as discussed in this YouTube video.
- Controversy: Her appointment and views have drawn scrutiny, including her past criticism of the Black Lives Matter movement, according to a report from The Guardian.
- Wikipedia
Paula Michelle White-Cain (née Furr; born April 20, 1966) is an American pastor, author, spiritual advisor, and televangelist. She has written several books and is a leader in the charismatic movement. White is also known for her roles in Donald Trump’s two presidential administrations.
Paula White-Cain
White in 2021
Senior Advisor to the White House Faith Office[1]
Incumbent
Assumed office
February 7, 2025
President
Donald Trump
Preceded by
Position established
Special Advisor to the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships
In office
May 3, 2018 – January 20, 2021
President
Donald Trump
Preceded by
Melissa Rogers
Succeeded by
Melissa Rogers
Personal details
Born
Paula Michelle Furr
April 20, 1966(age 59)
Tupelo, Mississippi, U.S.
Party
Republican
Spouses
* Dean Knight
(m. 1984; div. 1989)
* Randy White
(m. 1990; div. 2007)
* Jonathan Cain (m. 2015)
Children
1
Occupation
Pastor • televangelist
Website
paulawhite.org
White served as a pastor of Without Walls International Church in Tampa, Florida, a church she co-founded with her then-husband, Randy White, in 1991. From 2011 until May 2019, White was senior pastor of New Destiny Christian Center in Apopka, Florida.
White is a spiritual advisor to Donald Trump. She served as chair of the evangelicaladvisory board to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. White delivered the invocation at Trump’s first inauguration on January 20, 2017, becoming the first female clergy member to deliver an inaugural invocation. In November 2019, Trump appointed White as a special advisor to the Faith and Opportunity Initiative at the Office of Public Liaison. On February 7, 2025, Trump announced the creation of the White House Faith Office, to be led by White.
Early life
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White was born Paula Michelle Furr in Tupelo, Mississippi, the daughter of Myra Joanelle and Donald Paul Furr III. Her parents owned a toy and craft store.[2]
Donald and Myra Furr’s marriage began to fail when White was five years old. White’s mother left Tupelo and took her to Memphis; her separation from her husband and his subsequent suicide drove White, her brother, and her mother into poverty.[3]White’s mother became an alcoholic. While she worked, caregivers looked after her daughter. White has said that she was sexually and physically abused between the ages of six and thirteen by different people on different occasions. White has said that during that time, she suffered from bulimia.[4][5][6]
White graduated from Seneca Valley High School in Germantown, Maryland.[6][7]
While living in Maryland in 1984, White converted to Christianity at the Damascus Church of God. White later stated that she had received a vision from God shortly after her conversion.[2]
White has been described as a Christian nationalist and a “Christian Trumpist” who has forged close political ties with Donald Trump.[55]Unlike some other Christian nationalists associated with Trump, White has been described as valuing Christian identity over racial identity. She has surrounded herself with a racially diverse network of Independent Charismatic leaders from across the United States and the Global South, including prominent figures in African American, Latino, and African Pentecostal communities.[55]White was amongst the first prominent Independent Charismatic leaders to embrace the populism of Trump, coming to his side even before the 2016 Republican primaries; she helped rally support for Trump within evangelical circles.[55]
White is a proponent of prosperity theology.[36][56]
White has been criticized for her religious beliefs by some theologians and conservative evangelists.[57]Christian rapper Shai Linnecriticized her in a song called “Fal$e Teacher$”.[58][59][60] In response to her critics,[10][61] in 2017, White said, “I have been called a heretic, an apostate, an adulterer, a charlatan, and an addict. It has been falsely reported that I once filed for bankruptcy and that I deny the Trinity! My life and my decisions have been nowhere near perfect, though nothing like what has been falsely conveyed in recent days.”[62]
White enthusiastically supported Trump’s 2017 decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.[63]
In January 2020, White was criticized for a sermon in which she prayed for the miscarriage of “all Satanic pregnancies.” White later wrote on Twitter that the comment had been a metaphor, and a reference to Ephesians 6.[64][65] André Gagné, scholar of American evangelicalism and the New Apostolic Reformation, states White’s “words were misinterpreted” given the context of her spiritual warfare prayer and the cryptic language used. Instead, he argues, the terminology refers to the destruction of evil schemes against Christians. Gagné has referred to White as “one of the most vocal advocates of spiritual warfare”.[66]
In December 2021, White participated in the “Prayer Rally for Peace on the Korean Peninsula,” hosted by the Unification Church’s Universal Peace Federation. During the event, she called Hak Ja Han Moon, the widow of Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon, “a jewel from God” and lauded “Mother Moon for her great work as a spiritual leader who loves the Lord and seeks to carry out and to comfort the heart of God in all the areas of conflict in the world.”[67]
Immigration
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In a July 2018 interview on the Christian Broadcasting Network, White criticized immigration advocates who cited the Gospel’s account of Jesusmigrating to Egypt, saying: “Yes, he did live in Egypt for three-and-a-half years. But it was not illegal. If he had broken the law, then he would have been sinful and he would not have been our Messiah.”[68]
White embraced Trump’s immigration policy,[69] including the detention of immigrant children, saying conditions at a border facility that she visited were not inhumane.[70]
From: Wikipedia
Trump’s spiritual and faith advisor 폴라 화이트는 누구인가?
(Paula White-Cain continues to be a key spiritual and faith advisor to Donald Trump in 2026.)
미국 출신의 번영신학 여성 목사
폴라 화이트 (Paula Michelle White-Cain, 1966년 4월 20일– ) 미국의 대표적인 번영신학을 전파하는 설교자이며 작가이며 방송전도자이다. 도널드 트럼프 행정부시절 그의 복음주의자들의 참모기관의 회원으로 활동하였다. 2017년 1월 20일에 그의 취임식에서 개회사를 낭독하였다. 그녀는 대통령 취임식에서 개회사를 한 미국 최초의 여성 성직자였다. 2019년 11월에서, 트럼프는 그녀를 신앙과 기회 위원회의 특별 참모로 임명하였다.
폴라 화이트
사역과 활동
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1991년에 폴라와 그녀의 남편 랜디 화이트는 플로리다주 템파에서 템파 크리스천 센터를 설립하였고, 그 이후, ‘장벽이 없는 국제교회‘로 개명을 하였다.
비판과 이단연루설
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번영신학을 주창하면서, 그녀는 수백만 달러를 벌어들였다.
남 침례교 신학교 윤리학자인 러셀 무어는 ‘폴라 화이트는 사기꾼이며, 모든 정통 기독교인들에게 이단으로 여겨지고 있다‘라고 말했다. 마이클 호턴 (신학자)은 2017년 1월에 ‘화이트는 이단운동을 대표하며, 도널트 트럼프 대통령 취임식에 한 개회사는 그녀의 이단성을 주요 공직에 소개한 계기가 되었다‘라고 말했다. 호턴은 그녀가 삼위일체를 부정하며, 번영신학을 주장하는 데, 그것은 그리스도의 십자가의 죽음 인류의 죄를 용서하는 것이 아닌 재정적 어려움에서 구출하는 것으로 가르친다라고 말하였다.
개인생활
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화이트는 세번을 결혼하였다. 첫번째 결혼은 청소년 때였다. 그녀는 기독교로 개종한 다음 해에 임신을 하였다. 그녀는 부목사인 랜디 화이트를 1987년에 만났는데, 2007년에 이혼한다고 발표하였다.
2010년에 화이트는 베니 힌과 관계를 갖고 있다는 음모설이 있었으나, 그는 단순히 친구사이일 뿐, 그 관계는 끝이다라고 말하였으며, 둘 모두 성관계를 부인하였다.
2014년에 화이트는 록 밴드 저니 (밴드)의 단원이었던 조나단 카인과 사귀면서, 2015년에 결혼을 하였다.
From: 위키백과
In December 2021, White participated in the “Prayer Rally for Peace on the Korean Peninsula,” hosted by the Unification Church’s Universal Peace Federation. During the event, she called Hak Ja Han Moon, the widow of Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon, “a jewel from God” and lauded “Mother Moon for her great work as a spiritual leader who loves the Lord and seeks to carry out and to comfort the heart of God in all the areas of conflict in the world.”[67]
From: Wikipedia