Dr. Fredrick D. Robinson is the pastor of Mt. Gilead Missionary Baptist Church, Southeast where he previously served from 2006 to 2011 before moving to Charlotte, NC in 2011. He earned advanced degrees from Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary (Master of Arts in Religion and Christian Thought), and Chicago Theological Seminary (Master of Sacred Theology in Social Transformation). A 2014 Fellow of the Black Theology and Leadership Institute at Princeton Theological Seminary, he was selected as an “Emerging Theologian” for the Freedom Center for Social Justice’s 2018 conference on Liberating Theologies. He also earned his Doctor of Ministry degree from Emory Candler School of Theology in Atlanta, GA.

Rev. Robinson is also the former Pastor of Holy Covenant United Church of Christ in Charlotte, NC and former Executive Director of Mecklenburg Ministries, Charlotte’s oldest interfaith network. He is also a former executive board member of the Charlotte Clergy Coalition for Justice and a life-time member of the NAACP where he served as First Vice President for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Branch.

Additionally, Rev. Robinson served as the 11th pastor of the Mt. Zion First African Baptist Church in Cordele, Ga., as well as the chairman of the Gum Creek Missionary Baptist Union, a division of the General Missionary Baptist Convention of Georgia, Inc. A son of Antioch Baptist Church North, he was licensed in 1995 and ordained in 2004 by the late Rev. Dr. Cameron Madison Alexander.

An accomplished, award-winning journalist, he has over 20 years of experience as an editor and writer where he has covered the following issues: Faith and values, the family, the black church, state and local taxes, business development and entrepreneurship, the criminal justice system, education, politics, and welfare reform. He has been published in numerous newspapers and magazines, including Patheos, Black Enterprise, The Chicago Tribune, CNN, Atlanta Constitution, The Los Angeles Times.

A native of Atlanta, he has been married to Felicia Renee Williams for 35 years. They have three children, Fredrick Daniel Jr. (wife, Shameka Brown); Kyra Ashley; Jordan Michael, and one grandchild, Qwame Daniel Lee Robinson.