Of these people, the one closest to White was Jerry Falwell. In the process, White acquired an intimate knowledge of the people, their ideas and their circle of friends. He accepted and throughout the 1980s was responsible for writing books for Billy Graham, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and several others. With a solid reputation for storytelling and his Christian foundation, national publishers approached White to write ghost-autobiographies for prominent evangelical leaders. He went on to teach communications and preaching at the school for more than a decade.ĭuring this span of time, White was offered a series of writing gigs that would radically alter his future. While continuing his burgeoning writing and film career, White also completed a doctorate at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. His films and writings spanned a number of genres: from spirituality, to incredible human survival and perseverance stories, to tales of war in Vietnam. He also wrote twenty-one books, 9 of which were best-sellers. In 1965, he launched his own production company, Mel White Productions, and over the course of twenty years made fifty-three documentaries and motion pictures.
As a young adult, he used his passions for storytelling and God to pursue a career in writing, filmmaking and teaching. Born in 1940, in Santa Clara, California, Mel White was reared in a conservative evangelical Christian home. To understand White’s frustration in 2017, you have to go back and unpack his incredible life journey. He’s assessing the current political climate in the US, and the fruit of his own labor, and sees failure all around. Mel White, 77, is retired now but instead of finally relaxing and enjoying the freedom, he’s feeling dejected. And now they were much more powerful, and influential, than ever before. And, that the evangelical leaders that had praised Trump, and encouraged Christians to vote for him, were former friends and colleagues of theirs. Donald Trump had been propelled to the presidency by Christian voters, that a faith they hold so dear had been given the credit for rallying millions of supporters. That’s how we feel in this family,” says White.įor Mel White and Gary Nixon, Trump’s election was more than just a political defeat, more than just disgust at an individual it was the culmination of their worst fears. “My husband had a stroke in his right eye when it was announced he was going to be President.
But for Mel White and his husband, Gary Nixon, it affected them differently than most. Millions of Americans had visceral reactions to Donald Trump winning the Presidency. Editor’s note: Ryan Kohls, the interviewer and founder of What I Wanna Know, is a producer for “ UpFront,” a current affairs program on Al Jazeera English.
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