Religion & Spirituality
The trope of the “white savior” is central to Dune, a new adaptation of the Frank Herbert novel. In another page-to-screen project - Passing, based on the Nella Larsen novella - presenting as white is seen as a path to a better life. How should we think about the positioning of “whiteness” in such salvific terms? What does such color-coding say about both the identity of Jesus and the makeup of his church? Josh, Kathryn, and Claude discuss.