Charles Browning "Bouck" White (October 20, 1874[1] – January 7, 1951[2]) was a Congregational minister, American socialist, Jesusist, author, potter, and recluse.

"[5] Middleburgh residents sued and retorted that White was "a male child born some years ago in the village, whose early stupidity gave no indication of his future precocity.

[11] The Call of the Carpenter (1911), which portrayed Jesus of Nazareth as a workingman, agitator, and social revolutionist, went too far and caused White's dismissal from Holy Trinity.

[12] In The Carpenter and the Rich Man (1914), "Bouck White shows in vivid and absorbing fashion Jesus as the leader of the great proletarian surge of his time.

"[9] Another politically active minister, Methodist John Wesley Hill, debated the resolution "Resolved: That socialism is a peril to the state and the church" with White at Webster Hall in Manhattan on May 7, 1913, with suffragist Inez Milholland moderating.

[13] A member of the Socialist Party of America until he was removed because of his religious beliefs, White appeared on May 10, 1914 at a service of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church,[14] to which the Rockefeller family belonged, in order to discuss the question, "Did Jesus teach the immorality of being rich?"

And in Jesus the Carpenter of Nazareth, who was born of proletarian Mary, toiled at the work bench, descended into labor's hell, suffered under Roman tyranny at the hands of Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried.

I believe in work, the self-respecting toiler, the holiness of beauty, freeborn producers, the communion of comrades, the resurrection of workers, and the industrial commonwealth, the cooperative kingdom eternal.