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A New Way to Negotiate the Turbulent Waters of Love
Author offers groundbreaking alternative to The Da Vinci Code
LONGWOOD, FL—Imagine a world where Jesus Christ's struggles with his love for Mary Magdalene resulted not in marriage but in timeless wisdom for today. This is the world of The Lost Epistle of Jesus ($15.99, paperback, 978-1-60266-126-4), Evan Drake Howard's epic love story set in first century Jerusalem that explores Christ and Christianity in revolutionary new ways. The story revolves around a miraculous epistle that Jesus wrote to help people in all generations through the storms of falling in love and loving. The novel also raises questions about why Judas Iscariot committed suicide, who really killed Jesus, and what it means to be a true Christian.
"The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown created a stir by claiming that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married," says Howard. "But what if the truth were more revolutionary than that? I hope that my novel will offer a new slant on this ancient controversy—one that nurtures the inner healing that turns heartbreak to hope."
The hope emerges from the novel's provocative premise—that Jesus wrote an epistle intended for all humanity. Out of his struggles with Mary Magdalene, he developed a holistic understanding of spirituality—a spirituality that encompasses the whole person. In illuminating the unity of the masculine and the feminine, the epistle invites readers into a new life of integration and freedom. But this life can only be found by following Jesus' way of radical forgiveness and nonviolence. Howard says he hopes readers will take a transforming journey with the New Testament's legendary characters. In exploring these characters' personal motivations, readers will share Jesus' deepest turmoil and learn practical skills for loving as he did.
"Howard's historical novel about the plots that surrounded the story of Jesus is refreshingly different," says Wheaton College Professor Emeritus Gilbert Bilezikian. "While respecting the biblical data, it weaves them into a credible cliff-hanger drama that screams its way to a cathartic climax."
Evan Drake Howard, pastor of the Community Church of Providence, Rhode Island, is the author of Rekindling the Hope of the Manger, From Sacrifice to Celebration, and Centered in God. He and his wife, Carol, have been married since 1978 and are the parents of two sons.
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