Today, it is easy to admire Jesus. We even hero-worship Him ... Not even a negative reaction to His snobbish attitude toward a Syrophoenician woman. Remember this astounding conversation? “But she ...

Sallman’s painting culminates a long tradition of white Europeans creating and disseminating pictures ... Jesus and his parents from their Jewishness. Even seemingly small attributes like pierced ears ...

The earliest images ... to distance Jesus and his parents from their Jewishness. Even seemingly small attributes like pierced ears – earrings were associated with Jewish women, their removal ...

Shaggy tissue paper hats resembling caterpillars sit atop the heads of men and women wearing bearded and mustached leather masks, and colored capes adorned with images of Jesus and Virgin Mary.