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With the travel restrictions and lockdown measures,

this holiday season simply isn't as merry as years gone by,

but it still twinkles with remembrances of times past. The snow, the lights, and of course the public nativity scenes depicting the birth of Jesus,

presenting the family with very rare exceptions as white.

And the same can be said of his ubiquitous adult portrait, with skimbing the family with very rare exceptions as white.

And the same can be said of his ubiquitous adult portrait, with skin and hair or radiant gold and soft baby blues fixed on the middle distance.

Eloise Blondia, our resident graduate of Harvard Divinity School,

traces how the historically dubious image

became American canon and its consequences.

The first picture of Jesus that Detroit pastor in Bayou Chui

remember seeing belonged to his grandmother.

It hung in her bedroom.

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