Why Jesus' Skin Color Matters

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Why Jesus' Skin Color Matters
That he was an ethnic minority shapes how we minister today.
Christena Cleveland
After one of my recent lectures, a Christian college student approached me and asked if black people are uncomfortable with the fact that Jesus is white. I responded, "Jesus is not white. The Jesus of history likely looked more like me, a black woman, than you, a white woman." I wasn't shocked by this student's assumption that Jesus was of European descent, or the certitude with which she stated it. When I am in US Christian spaces, I encounter this assumption so often... continue reading >>

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