Sudarium is an exploration of how God lived in human form, and what that might mean for each of us who is only human. So when I started writing this book, I attempted to identify every trait and experience of Jesus that seemed completely human.

One theme that emerged in writing Sudarium was the nature and dysfunctionality of celebrity. Not surprisingly, finding out that Jesus had been cloned and was now a 30-year-old woman evokes quite the global response in the book.

If you believe that there is a Being who is the source of love and creation and gravity and, dare we say, evolution, then confining that Power to a human gender is so trivial it’s also meaningless.

Can we agree on this assertion: Every person on earth is worthy of our love, and each one of us is accountable for loving others?