A story from my parenting days: I had been talking with my young daughter, who is a beautiful ethnic mixture of African-American, Mexican-American, Native American, and Caucasian, about Jesus. We are Catholic. I told her that Jesus had brown skin like her because he lived in a part of the world where people had brown skin. She went acros…
A story from my parenting days: I had been talking with my young daughter, who is a beautiful ethnic mixture of African-American, Mexican-American, Native American, and Caucasian, about Jesus. We are Catholic. I told her that Jesus had brown skin like her because he lived in a part of the world where people had brown skin. She went across the street to play with her friend, whose blond-haired, blue-eyed family would probably now be described as White Nationalist Call-me-Christians who didn't know much about what Jesus really taught. My daughter came back home and said, "Mom, Tanya's mom said Jesus did NOT have brown skin!" I just said to her, "Well, honey, Tanya's mom is wrong."
A story from my parenting days: I had been talking with my young daughter, who is a beautiful ethnic mixture of African-American, Mexican-American, Native American, and Caucasian, about Jesus. We are Catholic. I told her that Jesus had brown skin like her because he lived in a part of the world where people had brown skin. She went across the street to play with her friend, whose blond-haired, blue-eyed family would probably now be described as White Nationalist Call-me-Christians who didn't know much about what Jesus really taught. My daughter came back home and said, "Mom, Tanya's mom said Jesus did NOT have brown skin!" I just said to her, "Well, honey, Tanya's mom is wrong."