kim lawton explores the pit falls and potential spirittial impact of depicting jesus. ♪ for 2,000 yearssing jesus whether in sacred art or pop culture has been a complicated controversy endeavor. >> we invest so much emotion into the figure of jesus, whether it's love him, find our redemption through him. whether it's animosity towards jesus that you live in a culture that prizes jesus and you don't believe in him. the stakes are so high. the emotions are so high. >> san diego state university history professor is coauthor of the book the color of christ. >> whenever we give bible figures visible bodies that complain to our own problems. >> bloom says jesus pose as particularly interesting challenge because for hundreds of millions of his followers he was both human and devine. >> jesus matters so much because of the incarnation, because of the belief that he's the fleshed body of god. and so if god take as particular body with particular hair length and particular eye color, then that says something about the value of thatwn body. >> the gospels give no indication of what jesus may hav

today kim lawton looks at the crisis and talks with one of the nation's most prominent evangelical leaders rerverend richard cizik, whose own son died of a heroin overdose last year. >> reporter: for years reverend richard cizik has been one of the most prominent evangelical voices advocating on issues from religious freedom to interfaith dialogue and climate change. now he's take up a new cause. one he never wanted. >> this has been my whole career, really, on so many public issues, but never did i imagine it would cut so close to home. or be so personal. or painful. >> reporter: on december 19, 2013, cizik's 23-year-old son richard cizik jr., richey, died of a heroin overdose. now cizik is urging the faith community and churching in particular to get more involved in fighting america's burgeoning heroin epidemic. >> the irony of it all, there is little if any community support and no one will talk about this. it makes me fearful for other families. >> reporter: richey died when he was brought up in the family's home in fredericksburg, virginia, about an hour outside of washington, d.c. >

. >> joining me now are kim lawton, managing editor of this program and haris tarin, director of thehington office of the muslim public affairs council. haris, welcome. what is your -- i know you have some concerns about the president's policy. what is your biggest concern? >> the biggest concern is that it not only be a military response in approach to isis. it has to be a social, an economic, education-based response. there are 6.1 million internally-displaced syrian refugees in jordan, in various countries around the region. and 50% of them are children. these individuals are ripe for being brainwashed by isis and al qaeda, and we must respond to threats like that as well. >> but why is it up to us? there are lots and lots and lots of muslims in the middle east. why can't they do it? >> well, i think we have to work with our middle eastern partners. but i think america has to take leadership on this issue because we have the ability to really bring people together in the region. a lot of time the various countries in the region have different agendas, or they can't come together a