Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Christena Cleveland spent much of her childhood in an evangelical church surrounded by traditional images of a porcelain-skinned ...

It’s a familiar image for millions of Christians: Jesus, with a crown of thorns, hanging from the cross. What color is he? In a controversial new film opening Friday, he is black. “Color of the Cross” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For decades, the stained-glass window hid in plain sight. In some ways, it was easy to miss. How many people really look that ...

Depending on where you attend church, Jesus can look different. In a predominantly white church, a picture on the wall might show him with blue eyes and pale skin. In a predominantly African-American ...

Edward Blum’s book about the White Jesus begins with the horrific bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., on a Sunday morning in 1963, when White supremacists took the ...

For decades, the stained-glass window hid in plain sight. In some ways, it was easy to miss. How many people really look that closely at the stained-glass windows in their church, expecting to find ...

Fox News host Megyn Kelly caused some controversy when she declared, on her Wednesday evening show: "Jesus was a white man, too. It's like we have, he's a historical figure. That's a verifiable fact, ...

Christena Cleveland spent much of her childhood in an evangelical church surrounded by traditional images of a porcelain-skinned and flaxen-haired Jesus. But one day she came across a portrayal of ...