Until that moment, she had 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 ...

She was Miriam of Nazareth, after all ... an Ethiopian refugee artist kept bringing me paintings of White Jesus and White Mary, because that's what he had been taught. When I suggested painting ...

Why paint Jesus as a man with dark skin ... for Feb. 2 from 6 to 9 p.m. in conjunction with the Provo Art Stroll. As a white Latter-day Saint married to a Black member of the church, Rachel ...

Decades of Roman rule were causing ever more resentment. Jesus was born to a family from a village called Nazareth, near the Sea of Galilee. As he was growing up, Judaea was collapsing into chaos.

“He's known as ‘Jesus of Nazareth,’ after all, which means he came from a small (200-400 person) town in Galilee.” And yet, Sallman’s “Head of Christ,” a painting commissioned for ...