Most images of Jesus follow a general model: tall, white male with long locks and flowing robe. But historian Joan Taylor, religious studies professor at King's College London in the United Kingdom, ...

CHICAGO (RNS) — The first time the Rev. Lettie Moses Carr saw Jesus depicted as Black, she was in her 20s. It felt “weird,” Carr said. Until that moment, she’d always thought Jesus was white. At least ...

A stained-glass window that was part of a church shows a dark-skinned Jesus, which was unusual at the time. Michel M. Raguin Virginia Raguin, College of the Holy Cross A stained-glass window, donated ...

Orlando playwright Michael Knight sees Jesus as a hero. So why not put him into a superhero story? “If you really are a religious person, you should be into helping people,” says Knight, one of the ...