Discuss “The ever-changing face of America's Jesus Christ”

The history of American Christianity just closed a fascinating week. You don’t have to look much further than the headlines to see that the Son of God must be having an identity crisis.

On September 13, 2001, in the rubble and the dust of the World Trade Center, social service worker Frank Silecchia discovered an intersection of steel support beams roughly 18 feet tall and weighing about three tons. It had broken in precisely the shape of a cross. For five years it stood over Ground Zero, offering an odd solace to countless grievers. Last week it was moved — via flatbed truck and crane — to St. Peter’s Roman Catholic Church, where it will reside until its permanent installation in the World Trade Center Memorial to be completed in...