James Robert White is an American Christian apologist and Reformed Baptist theologian. He is the director of Alpha and Omega Ministries, a Christian apologetics organization based in Phoenix, Arizona. He is a Christian scholar and has authored several books.
Early life and education White graduated with a B.A. from Grand Canyon University (formerly known as Grand Canyon College) and an M.A. from Fuller Theological Seminary. He then obtained Th.M., Th.D., and D.Min. degrees from Columbia Evangelical Seminary, an unaccredited online school. The legitimacy of White's academic credentials has been questioned by some of his polemical interlocutors.
Career White served as an elder of Phoenix Reformed Baptist Church in Phoenix, Arizona, from 1998 until 2018. He became Scholar-in-Residence at Apologia Church in Tempe, Arizona in 2018, and was installed as one of the pastor/elders in 2019.
White is the director of Alpha and Omega Ministries, a Christian apologetics organization based in Phoenix, Arizona. As director of Alpha and Omega Ministries, White also hosts the Dividing Line Podcast and radio show on the Alpha and Omega Ministries YouTube Channel. He was also a critical consultant for the Lockman Foundation's New American Standard Bible.
White often engages in public debate, having participated in more than 170 public moderated debates, covering topics such as Calvinism, Catholicism, Islam, Mormonism, Infant baptism the King James Only movement, Jehovah's Witnesses, and atheism. Dr. White claimed his debate against Dale Tuggy in 2025 was his 200th public moderated debate. His debate opponents have included Bart Ehrman, John Dominic Crossan, Marcus Borg, Robert M. Price, Gerry Matatics, Joe Ventilacion of Iglesia ni Cristo, Dan Barker, Jimmy Akin, and John Shelby Spong. White has criticized the King James Only movement, supported by some fundamentalists. He has argued that the King James version has multiple translation errors.
White is friends with Skillet frontman John Cooper and his wife Korey, where he has provided theological advice to the band.
White has written multiple books critical of Catholic theology, including the books; The Roman Catholic Controversy, Mary: Another Redeemer? and The Fatal Flaw.
White supports Creationism and Theonomy.
Personal life James White has an elder sister, Patty Bonds (née White), with whom he has been estranged for many years. Patty Bonds, her father, her mother and her brother James White, at Catholic Convert
He is married and he and his wife have two children. He also has five living grandchildren.
White is a Reformed Baptist and a Calvinist.
Selected works
See also Protestant opposition to papal supremacy
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