Christena Cleveland spent much of her childhood in an evangelical church surrounded by traditional images of a porcelain-skinned and flaxen-haired Jesus. But one day she came across a portrayal of ...
Edward Blum’s book about the White Jesus begins with the horrific bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., on a Sunday morning in 1963, when White supremacists took the ...
No longer perpetually blond and blue-eyed, the Christian ideal of tolerance and inclusion is being depicted more often as what scholars agree he was: darker-skinned, with darker hair. For generations ...
Everyone seems fixated on color these days. If you’re a college football fan, it’s orange if you follow the Tennessee Vols, crimson if you root for mighty Alabama, or in my case, scarlet and gray for ...
UPDATE #2: El Paso police said Friday they had re-booked church vandalism suspect Isaiah Cantrell on additional charges unrelated to the Sept. 15 destruction of a Jesus statue. Cantrell is now facing ...