One of the earliest public examples of Christ portrayed as a person of color was rediscovered recently in a renovated Rhode Island church. The stained glass window was commissioned in 1878 in memory of two women whose families had ties to the slave trade.
A nearly 150-year-old stained-glass church window that depicts a dark-skinned Jesus Christ interacting with women in New Testament scenes has stirred up questions.
A depiction of Jesus Christ with dark skin on a 150-year-old stained glass window, installed in the St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Warren, has raised questions over race in the sociopolitical and academic circles.