Recent debates over whether Jesus should be depicted as white aren’t new, writes FrancisXRocca. The question of how to represent Jesus visually is nearly as old as Christianity itself.
Recent controversies over the historical legacy of racism in America haven't spared the symbols of religion. Several statues of St. Junípero Serra, an 18th-century Spanish missionary to California who critics say oppressed indigenous people there, have been pulled down by protesters or ordered removed by public authorities.
The targets of criticism have even included images of the founder of Christianity himself. Shaun King, a prominent activist with the Black Lives Matter movement, wrote on Twitter last month that “all murals...
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