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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

he also can inhibit our ability to honor the image of God in people who aren’t white. Jesus of Nazareth likely had a darker complexion than we imagine, not unlike the olive skin common among ...

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.

This children’s Christmas book paints baby Jesus in a new (or rather ancient) light. In 2010 I visited the Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth and was struck by how different ethnic groups ...

Is there any basis for historical investigation into the stories of a spiritual guide from the modest town of Nazareth ... on Jesus, criticizing the model of the "great charismatic white man." ...