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Jesus' "good news to the poor" includes, in effect, "bad news" for the rich, as the "woes on the rich" in Luke 6:24-25 demonstrate, and Jesus's call for justice and his denunciation of injustice ...
Every time a white mob lynched a black person, they lynched Jesus. The lynching tree is the cross in America. When American Christians realize that they can meet Jesus only in the crucified bodies in ...
Since then, artists have re-created the black Jesus in paintings, stained-glass windows, Bibles, and more. Hunter was known for her many depictions of Christ’s crucifixion, although this version ...
The Book of Clarence, Jeymes Samuel‘s follow-up to all-Black Western The Harder They Fall, is, without doubt, the funkiest biblical epic ever put on screen. The film, which opened across the U.S ...
Rev. Dr. Shively T. J. Smith explores the literary representation of Jesus’ death on the cross in the gospel accounts and its historic Roman spectacle of violence and execution using African American ...
Black Jesus Season 1 follows the outrageous exploits of Jesus Christ who returns to Earth in present-day Compton, California. This unconventional Jesus isn’t your typical carpenter-turned-preacher.
Yet the preaching on Jesus’ death on the cross seems to have been sidelined today. ... Yet again, the African American church has never been afraid to look at it. It gives them hope.
The slowness to depict Jesus on a cross was not about a general sensibility to the visual arts, although they do seem to have been very selective in what they did portray.
Each Easter we see many images of Jesus on the cross – inevitably wearing a loincloth. But the historical evidence shows victims of crucifixion were fully naked to maximise shame as well as pain.