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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In December a lawsuit was filed against the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City claiming that the artwork of Jesus hanging on the museum’s walls is “racist propaganda” because the pieces ...

When I was a young boy growing up in a black Baptist church in Illinois, I remember sitting on the hard, smooth wooden pew surrounded by descendants of Africans. There were young kids like me, our ...