Until that moment, she’d always thought Jesus was white. At least that’s how he appeared when she was growing up. A copy of Warner E. Sallman’s “Head of Christ” painting hung in her home ...

CHICAGO — The first time the Rev. Lettie Moses Carr saw Jesus depicted as black, she was in her 20s. It felt “weird,” Carr said. Until that moment, she had always thought Jesus was white. At ...

Writer and activist Shaun King announced Monday that he supports the destruction of statues that depict a white Jesus. King, who has been an outspoken supporter of the Black Lives Matter movement ...

When I was a young man, “white Jesus” was a fixture in plenty of black homes and churches along with images of Martin Luther King, Jr., John F. Kennedy and on occasion, Malcom X.

He is also light-haired, blue-eyed, and very white. The problem is, Jesus was not white. You'd be forgiven for thinking otherwise if you've ever entered a Western church or visited an art gallery.

The MAGA movement uses the image of a White Jesus to weaponize political battles, he says, pointing to signs at the January 6 insurrection displaying a White Jesus, sometimes wearing a red MAGA hat.

Symbols matter. And the versions of Jesus that white Catholics see in their parishes will surely influence how they look at their non-white neighbors and whether white Catholics will oppose sinful ...

Chicago • The first time the Rev. Lettie Moses Carr saw Jesus depicted as Black, she was in her 20s. It felt “weird,” Carr said. Until that moment, she’d always thought Jesus was white. At ...

Some Black activists have led a movement to discard the White Jesus. Black theologians like the Rev. Albert Cleage have depicted Jesus as a man of color and a revolutionary. And during the George ...

The debate over the color of Jesus’ skin is one of the oldest running arguments in religion. But this Easter, the question is a serious one — for several reasons.