On Friday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to create the White House Faith Office.

The White House Faith Office will be led by Pastor Paula White-Cain as it takes on the “lead responsibility in the executive branch to empower faith-based entities, community organizations, and houses of worship to serve families and communities.”

She served in the previous Trump administration as an adviser in the White House Faith and Opportunity initiative consisting of 35 evangelical pastors including Jerry Falwell Jr., Franklin Graham, Jack Graham, and Robert Jeffress.

She was considered to be President Trump’s spiritual adviser and personal pastor during his first term and “directly shared the gospel” with him, but she believes he’s been a Christian since childhood. White delivered the invocation at Trump’s first inauguration.

Now in his second term, the office will fall under the Domestic Policy Council. According to the functions laid out in the order, the White House Faith Office is directed to consult “from time to time” with experts and faith leaders with expertise in an array of fields:

These experts and leaders shall be identified based on their expertise in a broad range of areas in which faith-based entities, community organizations, and houses of worship operate, including protecting women and children; strengthening marriage and family; lifting up individuals through work and self-sufficiency, defending religious liberty; combatting anti-Semitic, anti-Christian, and additional forms of anti-religious bias; promoting foster care and adoption programs in partnership with faith-based entities; providing wholesome and effective education; preventing and reducing crime and facilitating prisoner reentry; promoting recovery from substance use disorder; and fostering flourishing minds;

The office will provide Trump with recommendations “regarding changes to policies, programs, and practices, and aspects of my Administration’s policy agenda, that affect the ability of faith-based entities, community organizations, and houses of worship to serve families and communities.”

Also, the White House Faith Office will work with agencies to promote “grant opportunities for non-profit faith-based entities, community organizations, and houses of worship, especially those inexperienced with public funding but that operate effective programs.”

Moreover, it will notably work with the Department of Justice, under which Trump established a Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias on Thursday, to identify concerns that “faith-based entities, community organizations, and houses of worship” share regarding potential failures of the executive branch to safeguard religious liberties.

Controversies

White-Cain founded Paula White Ministries and the National Faith Advisory Board and is the president of the City of Destiny, the White House noted.

She and her former husband, Randy White, were part of two congressional investigations, one in 2004 and another in 2007, of prosperity gospel ministries.

The investigations uncovered no chargeable tax offenses, but they raised questions about her ministry’s finances. Between 2004 and 2007 the church paid a total of $2.755 million in compensation to their relatives, including Paula’s son and Randy’s two children, father, and sister.

Randy and Paula also reportedly received $5 million a year in compensation from their church, and purchased a $3.5 million condo in Trump Tower in New York City, according to Senate documents.

In 2001, White told her then-husband Randy that she wanted to start a television show. Paula White Today aired its first episode in 2001, and by 2006 the show was on nine television networks, including Black Entertainment Network (BET), Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN), and Country Music Television (CMT).

Through her show, White attracted numerous celebrities to her ministry, including Jonathan Cain, keyboardist for the rock band Journey (whom she married in 2014), model Tyra Banks, NFL veteran Deion Sanders, and the late Michael Jackson. White even made a trip to Jackson’s Neverland in 2003 to provide “spiritual support” after the singer was arrested on charges of child molestation.

A 2019 opinion piece from the Washington Examiner noted “White is a phony who preaches the gospel of self-aggrandizement and not much else. Similar to her peers Joel Osteen, Benny Hinn, and Kenneth Copeland, she preaches something known as prosperity theology, which boils down to a belief that God is good for her wallet.”

Dr. R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary – the flagship school of the Southern Baptist Convention and one of the largest seminaries in the world, had choice words about this “prosperity movement” trend, especially in mega-churches:

“The entire movement presents the Gospel as a message that is primarily about earthly rewards — a theology that turns God into a heavenly banker who is obligated to invest His people with material riches if they possess adequate faith and claim these blessings for their own…

Prosperity theology is a False Gospel. Its message is unbiblical and its promises fail. God never assures his people of material abundance or physical health. Instead, Christians are promised the riches of Christ, the gift of eternal life, and the assurance of glory in the eternal presence of the living God.”

“In the end, the biggest problem with prosperity theology is not that it promises too much, but that it promises far too little. The Gospel of Jesus Christ offers salvation from sin, not a platform for earthly prosperity.”

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