Hipster Jesus?

I haven’t done a huge inventory of the number of people blogging about Newsweek’s cover this week and, I must confess, I haven’t read the article yet (which, judging by the headline, encourages people to ditch the church and just follow Jesus), but the thing that really rankles me is that I thought we were past Jesus being from western Europe. Both the picture of him on the cover and the inside photo of (one assumes) his hands show him being about as Anglo as one could be. My hunch is that most people still can’t (or won’t) grasp the fact that he was MIddle Eastern which, in our society today, causes some people to think immediately of terrorism. Covers like this one don’t help.