Fair comment about mixed-race people today, Azizi. But that quote from Revelations (for what good it is) is pretty clear about the general skin tone being "finest brass", which no-one with mixed African and European blood will ever have.

FWIW, I think it's all crap anyway. Jesus should be a role model, not a race model. If someone needs to imagine him your colour to make him relevant as a "father figure" for them, then that's fine. But saying "he was definitely this skin colour" is bad history, and saying "he was definitely this skin colour so he's not relevant to you" is worse theology.

On that topic, a couple of Xmasses back in the UK there was a series of stamps depicting the Holy Family as being various ethnic groups. The one with the Virgin Mary being Indian with a bindi spot got particular flak from the narrow-minded. Me, I thought it was possibly the best depiction of what religion *should* be that I'd ever seen.

Graham.