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…