St. Djan Darada Fellowship

The black image of Jesus Christ is not new. AME Bishop Henry McNeal Turner declared that “God is a Negro” not long after the Civil War. The fathers of black liberation theology such as James Cone and Giraud Willmore led many preachers to cast away the popular Nordic/European paintings of Christ and paint brown skinned men with afros as our savior in the late 1960’s and early 70’s. There was no shortage of books about blacks in the Bible in the Afrocentrism on black college campuses in the late 1980’s and early 90’s. The plethora of internet information and speed of social media has helped more individuals and organizations spread histories and images to support a variety of doctrines on the subject. I, like many other bloggers, have written on the subject more than once.

From the Antiochian Heritage Museum, Bolivar PA

We must not use a black Jesus as…