In the foreword of D. Danyelle Thomas’ The Day God Saw Me as Black, actress Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor writes an opinion that reads like more of a statement of fact: “Black folks made God good ...

The Cross Breaks the Wheel. Let me be clear: The cross of Jesus Christ is not an intellectual apologetic that explains away the whip and chain as instruments of God’s larger purposes.

Black God, White Devil Through Nov. 23 at Film Forum in Manhattan; filmforum.org . A version of this article appears in print on , Section C , Page 10 of the New York edition with the headline: A ...

If white people are to become authentically Christian in an anti-black society, then we must become obedient to the God who is revealed in the life of slaves and the spirituals.

From Black woman to grey-bearded old man, God’s look has been imagined, painted and re-imagined for centuries. But according to a new study, a team of psychologists at the University of North ...

This white, blond-haired, blue-eyed, gun-toting, Bible-quoting Jesus of the religious right is a god of their own making. I call this god, the god of white supremacy and patriarchy.

“God Help the Child” by Toni Morrison Knopf, 192 pp., $27.95. For nearly a half-century, Toni Morrison has probed the African-American experience through novels notable for their lush use of ...

He condemned the white, blond-haired, blue-eyed Jesus—the prominent icon in so many Christian churches and homes—to the auspices of hell with rhetoric that demanded that “If God is white ...

In the foreword of D. Danyelle Thomas’ The Day God Saw Me as Black, actress Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor writes an opinion that reads like more of a statement of fact: “Black folks made God good ...