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Jesus Wasn’t White: He Was a Brown-Skinned, Middle Eastern Jew. Here’s Why That Matters.

By Robyn J. Whitaker — 2018

Jesus was not white. You’d be forgiven for thinking otherwise if you’ve ever entered a Western church or visited an art gallery. But while there is no physical description of him in the Bible, there is also no doubt that the historical Jesus, the man who was executed by the Roman State in the first century CE, was a brown-skinned, Middle Eastern Jew.

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What Jesus Means to Me as a Muslim

As the Christmas season ushers forth the memory of Jesus, it’s worth asking: How much do Muslims think about the person the Quran recognizes as a prophet and the Messiah?

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The Bible Without Jesus? How Two Faiths Can Read the Same Text in Dissonant Ways

Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Brettler parse opposing interpretations Jews and Christians have of the same Bible, and make the argument that religion doesn’t have to be a zero-sum game

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If Jesus Never Called Himself God, How Did He Become One?

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. When my guest Bart Ehrman was a young, evangelical Christian, he wanted to know how God became a man. But now as an agnostic and historian of early Christianity, he wants to know how a man became God.

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What Did Jesus Do?

Reading and unreading the Gospels.

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Was Jesus Gay? Probably.

I preached on Good Friday that Jesus’s intimacy with John suggested he was gay as I felt deeply it had to be addressed.

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The Forgotten Radicalism of Jesus Christ

First-century Christians weren’t prepared for what a truly inclusive figure he was, and what was true then is still true today.

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