According to Kathpress, the tweet with dark-skinned representations of Christ is accompanied by a recent Welby interview with the broadcaster BBC, in which he said the Church of England should rethink their idea of Jesus as a white man. Welby wanted to do that anyway and convince others.
Many churches around the world would see “a black Jesus, a Chinese Jesus, a Middle Eastern Jesus – who is of course the most accurate – or a Fijian Jesus”. He was “portrayed in as many ways as there are cultures, languages and beliefs,” said the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Universality of God
Now, however, it should not be a question of throwing away everything that was created in the past, but of remembering the universality of God, who “had become completely human”. Supporters of the anti-racism campaign “Black Lives Matter” have also called for the demolition of monuments of slave traders in Great Britain.
For his episcopal church in Canterbury, the archbishop agreed that all statues and pictures would be checked.
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