Michel M. Raguin Virginia Raguin, College of the Holy Cross A stained-glass window, donated in 1877 to a church in Rhode Island, shows Jesus as a dark-skinned man.

A stained-glass window from a shuttered Rhode Island church depicting Jesus as dark-skinned is stirring up fresh scrutiny of the role of race and gender in 19th-century New England.

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.

The 1877 window may be the first public works to depict Jesus Christ and the gospel women Mary and Martha as people of color. Where does it belong?

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For nearly 150 years, a stained-glass window portraying Jesus and three biblical women as Black hung at St. Mark’s, an 1830 Greek Revival church in Warren, Rhode Island.

(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.

A nearly 150-year-old stained-glass church window showing a dark-skinned Jesus Christ interacting with women has been rediscovered in a Rhode Island church, stirring questions about race, the ...

A detail of a nearly 150-year-old stained-glass window depicts Christ speaking to a Samaritan woman, in the now-closed St. Mark’s Episcopal church, Monday, May 1, 2023, in Warren, R.I.