Many have asked me in the last few days what I think about the (legitimate) critiques of the ubiquity of White Jesus representations, like the famous painting, “Head of Christ,” by Warner Sallman.
The first thing to say is that Jesus did not look like that. We don’t know what he looked like (the Gospels are silent about that), but we know that he wasn't white. He's known as “Jesus of Nazareth,” after all, which means he came from a small (200-400 person) town in Galilee.
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