Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Christena Cleveland spent much of her childhood in an evangelical church surrounded by traditional images of a porcelain-skinned ...

The 'I don't see color' or 'colorblind' mentality does not and can not progress inclusivity and diversity. This mindset allows people to ignore the complexities of racial issues and minimize the ...

As I read The Color of Christ, I recalled a meeting of the Christian fellowship I attended in college during which the minister warned us against a conception of Christ he jokingly called “Vidal ...

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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 ...

I thumbed through a stack of Xeroxed images, looking at the multiple faces of Jesus that a friend compiled for her theology paper. She had gone to the library and photocopied profiles from around the ...

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 ...

What did Jesus look like? In their new book, The Color of Christ, Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey explore how different groups have claimed Jesus... 'Color Of Christ': A Story Of Race And Religion In ...

We make Jesus seem gray when he was anything but. "Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean," wrote Algernon Charles Swinburne. "The world has grown grey with thy breath." Where, I wonder, did the ...