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A stained-glass window from a shuttered Rhode Island church depicting Jesus as dark-skinned is stirring up fresh scrutiny of the role of race and gender in 19th-century New England.
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 about race.
Michel M. Raguin Virginia Raguin, College of the Holy Cross A stained-glass window, donated in 1877 to a church in Rhode Island, shows Jesus as a dark-skinned man.
The window was created by the studios of Henry Sharp, a 19th-century American stained glass maker. Henry Sharp Studio, Jesus with dark skin in a window for St. Mark's Church in Warren, Rhode ...
WARREN, R.I. — 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 about race ...
For nearly 150 years, a stained-glass window portraying Jesus and three biblical women as Black hung at St. Mark’s, an 1830 Greek Revival church in Warren, Rhode Island.
A nearly 150-year-old stained-glass church window in Rhode Island that depicts a dark-skinned Jesus Christ interacting with women in New Testament scenes has found a new home at a museum in Tennessee ...
Former Orlando bishop Thomas Wenski joins Jesus and the Virgin Mary in St. James Cathedral's new stained glass, causing grumbling among some parishioners.
(The Conversation) — A stained-glass window, which shows Jesus as a Black man for the first time, tells a story not only of race but of gender, class and ethnicity.
A nearly 150-year-old stained-glass church window showing a dark-skinned Jesus Christ interacting with women has been rediscovered in a Rhode Island church.
Holy Cross professor and stained-glass expert Virginia Raguin speaks to a group of middle school students, Monday, May 1, 2023, while standing near a nearly 150-year-old stained-glass window that ...