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 ...

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, ...

This summer, I came across a digital image of the historical Jesus from Dutch artist Bas Uterwijk. This artist uses digital manipulation to display famous figures according to how they would have ...

Recently, the California State Assembly passed a law requiring schools to incorporate media literacy standards throughout multiple subjects in grades K-12. The goal? To combat "fake-news" by equipping ...

Over the centuries, many people have asked: “What did Jesus look like?” A new documentary attempts to answer this question. “The Face of Jesus” examines two acheiropoietic images of Christ — the ...

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 ...

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. (AP) – A Pennsylvania couple says Jesus showed up in their daughter’s sonogram picture, easing their concerns after two other children were born with birth defects. Alicia Zeek and ...

Tim Brink always got a chuckle out of people who “found” a potato chip shaped like a state or “saw” the image of Jesus on a grilled cheese sandwich. Not a particularly religious man, Brink viewed the ...

The portrayal of Jesus as a white, European man has come under renewed scrutiny during this period of introspection over the legacy of racism in society. As protesters called for the removal of ...

People questioned whether a Super Bowl ad for the Christian campaign “He Gets Us” used artificial intelligence to show images of people washing other people’s feet. The images were real photographs ...