The icon shows Jesus – with a beard and long hair – raising his right hand in blessing, while holding a golden book of the Gospels. This Jesus does not have blond hair and blue eyes.

“With Icons Spotlight, we want to shout from the rooftops that Jesus is alive and in the hearts of young people living for him,” he explained. “That’s what this show is celebrating.

The icon shows Jesus — with a beard and long hair — raising his right hand in blessing, while holding a golden book of the Gospels. This Jesus does not have blond hair and blue eyes.

For modern skeptics, the sixth-century icon hanging in the Orthodox monastery in the shadow of Mount Sinai is simply a 33-by-18-inch board covered in beeswax and colored pigments.

Religious icons make the divine present for believers. Gary Panetta. The image is at once tender, ... On the right, an icon of Jesus and, on the left, a beautifully wrought, ...

A look at religious icons. ... The infant Jesus reaches around the neck of his mother, pulling her close. The Virgin Mary bows her head toward her son, the two meeting cheek-to-cheek.

For modern skeptics, the sixth-century icon hanging in the Orthodox monastery in the shadow of Mount Sinai is simply a 33-by-18-inch board covered in beeswax and colored pigments.

The infant Jesus reaches around the neck of his mother, pulling her close. The Virgin Mary bows her head toward her son, ... Religious icons make the divine present for believers.

Still, while claiming that Jesus was a particular human appearance of God, the early church did not look for descriptions or portraits of Jesus “from life.” In the earliest Christian images, Christ ...

They also point to the little-known, somewhat disputed Secret Gospel of Mark, a text discovered in 1958 that at one point describes Jesus spending a night with a “naked” young man.

For modern skeptics, the sixth century icon hanging in the Orthodox monastery in the shadow of Mount Sinai is simply a 33-by-18-inch board covered in beeswax and colored pigments.

"Jesus was not a white European. Jesus would have looked like a first-century Middle Eastern Jew. Because He was one," noted John Stonestreet and David Carlson, in a BreakPoint radio ...