Rev. Robert W. Lee, IV
he Rev. Robert W. Lee, IV is a pastor and activist. Lee is a graduate of Appalachian State University and Duke University. He later served as a faculty lecturer at Appalachian State. He participated in the 2017 MTV VMAs and has appeared on ABC’s the View in that same year. In 2020, he testified before Congress on the issue of Confederate monuments and memory. He is the author of three books, Stained-Glass Millennials, A Sin by Any Other Name, and The Pulpit and the Paper. Lee has given lectures and preached at the Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, the American Cathedral in Paris, the University of Chicago, Arizona State University, St. Michael’s College, the University of California at Davis, Union Seminary in New York, and Harvard University. He has served a variety of pastoral contexts including a downtown church and a church where 8%% of the congregation identifies as LGBTQ+. He currently lives in his hometown of Statesville, North Carolina with his wife Stephanie, their two daughters, and their poodle-son Frank.
