The “Risen Christ Mural” that adorns the ceiling of Quinn A.M.E. Church on the Near South Side was painted by a church member named Proctor Chisholm in 1904.

Jesus’ risen, mutilated body. In Luke’s postresurrection appearances, the disciples have to reckon with the traumatic somatic. ... months before the Montgomery bus boycott—though historian Elliott ...

They present a dizzying number of illustrations from about seven historical epochs. In the process, we learn how people of faith—most notably white and black Protestants, white Mormons, Native ...

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 ...

After all, he is risen and is found everywhere. ... That also means that we should have Black Jesus in white churches, as a reminder of who Jesus was, and is, today.

What race was Jesus of Nazareth? Nobody can say for certain, but based on recent comments by the head of the Church of England, it is time to revisit whether or not Jesus should be portrayed as a ...

Jesus expressed a similar sentiment when Lazarus died and his disciples saw the resurrection and the life in action: “Lazarus has died. I’m glad for you that I wasn’t there so that you may ...

Timing is everything. “Risen,” a dramatization of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus, arrives in the throes of the Lenten season, giving devout Christian filmgoers an early glimpse of ...

Sixteen years after Tupac’s death, I’m left thinking about the resonance we found in a self-proclaimed thug and how the black church has lost it’s ability to relate to a younger generation.

Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury and head of the Church of England, has said the church should reconsider its portrayal of Jesus as a White man.