Second ‘George Floyd’ Pietà stolen from Catholic University
Washington DC, US RNS A second painting of Jesus and His mother, Mary, in which Jesus is widely thought to be depicted as George Floyd, has been stolen from the walls of the Catholic University of America’s law school. The painting, which sits outside the chapel at CUA’s Columbus Law School, replaced an identical, larger […]
‘George Floyd’ pieta stolen from Catholic university after artist receives death threats
RNS A painting of Jesus and his mother, Mary, in which Jesus is seen by many to be painted in the likeness of George Floyd in response to his agonising death, was stolen from Catholic University of America Columbus Law School this week after a spate of conservative media attention and death threats directed at […]
The Interview: Yolanda Pierce on grandmother theology, Black Jesus and Mariology
ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, speaks to Yolanda Pierce, dean of Howard University School of Divinity and author of ‘In My Grandmother’s House: Black Women, Faith, and the Stories We Inherit’…
Essay: The long history of how Jesus came to resemble a white European
Art historian ANNA SWARTWOOD HOUSE, in an article first published on The Conversation, looks at the history of portrayal of Christ as a white European…
Essay: We can’t cancel ‘white Jesus’, but we can keep telling our church’s story
PAUL ROBINSON, executive minister of Love Mercy Do Justice of the Evangelical Covenant Church – the church that originally commissioned Warner Sallman’s famous blonde, blue-eyed image of Christ, responds to calls to cancel ‘white Jesus’…
Depicting Christ: How Jesus became white – and why there are calls to ‘cancel’ that
EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER, of Religion News Service, looks at the history of depicting Jesus as a white man – including Warner E Sallman’s famous image ‘Head of Christ’ – and reports on calls to move away from such images…