A Seattle Church prepared to take over an old church by covering up the stained glass image of Jesus that was popularly called Manifest Destiny Jesus because he was “too white.” They painted over the stained glass window with a transparent foam painting of a crudely blotched tree against an amorphous rainbow-like blob that allows the light to still shine through.
This Seattle church’s stained-glass Jesus was far too White
From www.christiancentury.org
2021-08-16 05:12:55
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Darla DeFrance noticed the White man in the window the first time she walked into the church building. A friend who joined her on a tour of the space called him Manifest Destiny Jesus. He even points west.
The building was going to be the new home of Church of Hope, the Seattle congregation where DeFrance is pastor. But she “didn’t understand or relate to that image of Jesus,” she says. She was trying to build a community representative of the diverse neighborhood, and having one dominant image of God in the church “felt exclusive,” DeFrance says.
At the beginning of each service at Church of Hope, DeFrance asks where people saw God show up…
