A stained-glass window, donated in 1877 to a church in Rhode Island, shows Jesus as a dark-skinned man. Most Western depictions portrayed him as a European, with light skin and sometimes even with ...

One of Rochester's coolest buildings is also one of the least accessible to regular Rochesterites. Built in 1918 as the home of William (“Dr. Will”) and Hattie Mayo, the Mayo Foundation House—tucked ...

Editor’s note: This is the third in a series about historic houses of worship under threat of erasure in Jersey City and Hudson County. Look at an ancient stained-glass window long and deeply enough — ...

A nearly 150-year-old stained-glass church window that depicts a dark-skinned Jesus interacting with women in New Testament scenes has stirred up questions about race, Rhode Island’s role in the slave ...

The oldest church windows in the Midwest and West are about to start falling apart. When Justin Dunn preaches about Jesus feeding the 5,000, he points to the stained glass window on the southwest side ...

Over a video chat, David Levering Lewis is sharing the story about how he found the muse for his latest book inside one of Atlanta’s oldest churches. Nearly 10 years ago, the New York University ...

WARREN, R.I. — A nearly 150-year-old stained-glass church window that depicts a dark-skinned Jesus Christ interacting with women in New Testament scenes has stirred up questions about race, Rhode ...

It is not often that you find stained glass on the 11th floor of a mid-century skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan. The “LaFarge Windows,” housed in the offices of America Media, have little to do with ...

(The Conversation) — A stained-glass window, which shows Jesus as a Black man for the first time, tells a story not only of race but of gender, class and ethnicity. (The Conversation) — A ...