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Would Jesus really have joined the Bristol bus boycott?

9 June 2023

10:39 PM

9 June 2023

10:39 PM

St Mary Redcliffe church, in Bristol, has removed four stained-glass windows dedicated to the slave trader Edward Colston, he whose statue was recently toppled and sunk. So far, so good. It is set to replace them with four new images of Jesus. Sort of. Most of them are not exactly images of Jesus, but modern scenes in which he is present, identified by a halo.

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