3.8: Jesus Had Brown Skin

First Name Basis Podcast

Jasmine Bradshaw

How To, Parenting, Education, Kids & Family

5 • 629 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

When we really take a moment to step back and think it’s easy to agree that Jesus had brown skin because he was from the Middle East. If that’s the case, why is Christ so often depicted as white with light skin, hair, and eyes? In this episode we uncover the roots of white Jesus and explain the impact this depiction has made on us and our communities.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the First Name Basis podcast, Season 3, Episode 8.
0:05.0	Jesus had brown skin.
0:12.9	Teaching our children to be inclusive and anti-racist starts with us within the sacred walls of our home.
0:23.4	First Name Basis is designed to empower you with the confidence you need to be a leader in your family and a changemaker in your community.
0:29.1	Together, we will wrestle with hard questions and use the answers to create the world we want,
0:35.2	a world that reflects our values of inclusion, compassion, and courage.
0:40.5	I'm your host, Jasmine Bradshaw, and I am so excited to be on this journey with you.
0:48.5	Hello, First Name Macy's Fam. I am so glad you are here. So this week week we have a really interesting episode sometimes i feel like the
0:59.4	title just says everything i want to say i want to get on the mic and be like okay hey everybody
1:04.8	jesus had brown skin and that's the show because i feel like that in itself can be jarring for some people.
1:14.1	But of course, I have done a lot of research and reading and have so much to share with you
1:19.9	because even though most of us know that Jesus had brown skin, we rarely see him depicted that way. So let's do a little untold story. Let's do a
1:31.3	little deep dive and figure out where in the world did white Jesus come from? And why is he the
1:37.1	Jesus that we see so often? Before we begin, I have to remind you about our first name basis
1:42.8	Patreon community. So if you are
1:45.9	unfamiliar with Patreon, it is an amazing membership site where you can support the show. So if you
1:51.0	have learned or gained something special from listening to First Name Basis, we would love to
1:55.7	have you in our Patreon community supporting us and also digging in to this important work with parents and caregivers
2:03.1	just like you. Our Patreon is full of people who are really digging deep and trying to live a life
2:10.5	that is anti-racist and anti-bias. We are all in this journey together and we are digging in,
2:17.2	we're asking questions questions and we're learning
2:19.1	how to teach those children in our life that we love what it looks like to really fight for justice.
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