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 ...

It’s a familiar image for millions of Christians: Jesus, with a crown of thorns, hanging from the cross. What color is he? In a controversial new film opening Friday, he is black. “Color of the Cross” ...

It's a familiar image for millions of Christians: Jesus, with a crown of thorns, hanging from the cross. In a film that opened Friday in Houston, he is black. Color of the Cross tells a traditional ...

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 ...

Depending on where you attend church, Jesus can look different. In a predominantly white church, a picture on the wall might show him with blue eyes and pale skin. In a predominantly African-American ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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