this is no longer my blog

As I was preparing for worship this evening, I grabbed one of our bulletins to double check something in the order of worship. I stopped in my tracks, however, when I saw the cover. It is Christ the King Sunday, so it is appropriate to have a picture of Jesus on the front. However what I saw surpassed my expectations. On the cover of this bulletin is the face of a brown Jesus! Not a caucasian Jesus as is often the case, but this Jesus was definitely brown skinned. I was ecstatic. I thought for once those bulletin publishers got it right.
But then I noticed something. Jesus has blue eyes. I don't know very many brown skinned Middle Eastern types with blue eyes... Do you? Maybe I'm just ignorant to the fact that blue eyes were a common trait for 1st century Jews. Or maybe Jesus, ever the fashion guru and trend-setter, was one of the first people to have colored contact lenses. Or maybe it's the publishers of this bulletin still clinging ever so tightly to the arrogant idea that Jesus represents white america, even if just in the eyes...
Or maybe I'm reading too much into this. That could definitely be the case...