Christianity has inspired the design of many garments – with angels, the Virgin Mary and other sacred figures appearing on many designer outfits.
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Over centuries, artists and censors have employed the humble fig leaf to cover the penis – including on Michelangelo’s ‘unmistakably male’ David.
Evangelical filmmakers turned prayers into special effects and spiritual battles into dramatic storylines and created a new genre.
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 genre of contemporary Christian music has been around for decades, but the line between CCM and secular pop music has always been blurry.
Two precious manuscripts hidden in a bank vault survived the Allied bombing of Dresden, but one wound up in Soviet hands — until it was smuggled home.
What would our church and society look like if we were confronted with the reality that the body hung on the cross was brown?
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Associate Professor, New Testament, & Inaugural Director of The Wesley Centre for Theology, Ethics, and Public Policy, University of Divinity
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Distinguished Professor of Humanities Emerita, College of the Holy Cross
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Professor of Musicology and Music Theory, Dalhousie University
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Professor of Religious Studies, Michigan State University
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Professor of History, Australian Catholic University
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Senior Lecturer in Broadcast, Film, and Multimedia, University of Abuja
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Professor of Religious Studies, Wake Forest University