Warner Sallman
We can’t cancel ‘white Jesus,’ but we can keep telling our church’s story
By Paul Robinson — June 29, 2020
(RNS) — Today the Evangelical Covenant Church that commissioned Warner Sallman's portrait of Christ is creating art that reflects the beauty and diversity of God’s Kingdom.
How Jesus became white — and why it’s time to cancel that
By Emily McFarlan Miller — June 24, 2020
CHICAGO (RNS) — Nearly a century later, both ‘Head of Christ’ and criticism of its role in enshrining Jesus as white endure.
The N-word of God: Envisioning the image of Christ
By Mark Doox — June 24, 2020
(RNS) — A war over Christs of different ethnicities, says an artist and iconographer, won’t bring humanity closer together in empathy or love.
The man who painted Jesus
By Matthew Robert Anderson — May 2, 2019
(The Conversation) — April 30 is the 127th birthday of an artist whose name you probably don’t know, but his work may be the most widely distributed of the 20th century.
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