Like several other authors eagerly attempting to debunk "The Da Vinci Code," this one shows no evidence of having read two books by Margaret Starbird actually mentioned by Dan Brown in his work (on page 253). One might expect that intellectual curiosity might have persuaded Rev. Bock to read "The Woman with the Alabaster Jar" or "The Goddess in the Gospels," since these books provided background research for assertions made in "The Da Vinci Code" relating to Mary Magdalene as well as some of the symbols, fairy tales, and medieval artifacts found in the book. Starbird rests her case squarely on canonical Scriptures and is worth reading on that grounds alone. When fiction is stripped away from "The Da Vinci Code," what remains is powerful evidence of the "Sacred Union" at the very heart of the Christian story.