In June of 2013 Christensen wrote that "Big Mountain Jesus has been the subject of much frivolity over the years," serving as a meeting place for skiers, a wedding location and being festooned ...

It is affectionately known to skiers and other outdoor enthusiasts as “Big Mountain Jesus ... a reasonable observer would see the Jesus statue sitting on government land as “projecting ...

The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Monday that the statue, dubbed Big Mountain Jesus, does not violate the constitutional separation of church and state. The Freedom From Religion ...

WHITEFISH – “Big Mountain Jesus” is staying put. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday ruled that a 12-foot statue of Jesus at Whitefish Mountain Resort “did not sprout from the ...

I call it “awkward Saturday”: that holy day to sit, wait, hope—unsure of what’s to come tomorrow. Saturday is the day that Jesus, and all understanding, lay dead. A medieval theologian ...

An atheist group has dropped a lawsuit to remove a six-foot-tall statue of Jesus that has spent the last 60 years overlooking a northwestern Montana ski hill. The bitter five-year battle over the ...

Flathead National Forest officials will let a statue of Jesus remain on a small square of federal land atop the Whitefish Mountain Resort ski area. Forest Supervisor Chip Weber decided on Tuesday ...