Overview: Elizabeth Barnes, a brilliant agnostic scientist, recovers and uses DNA from a legendary burial cloth - the Sudarium - to impregnate herself and give birth to a clone of Christ, creating chaos for her daughter and the world.

When the identity of this 30-year-old woman cloned from Jesus is revealed, the media go wild, and people everywhere react.

Verdict: Her name is Jennifer, and she is not exactly a poster child for the Church. She has lesbian friends, uses he/she pronouns for God, and fights against domestic violence.

The saying You’re a child of God takes on new meaning as her life is put in danger, she starts to fall for an FBI agent, and global conflict between religions escalates.

Sudarium explores what it means to live with integrity and courage as a person of faith. It disrupts stale views about gender among Christians and invites its readers to pursue their spirituality with fresh eyes in the context of radically loving oneself and others.

Sudarium: A Thriller is Chuck Shelton’s debut novel. As a graduate of Fuller Theological Seminary and someone who has been devoted to a life of faith for more than fifty years, reading this book you can clearly see the way his mind works within this intensely written, and highly actionated, absolutely thrilling to immerse one’s self within new prose.

With an inner core that never once bends or even threatens to wane throughout the story, the omnipresent debate of genetics vs. environment makes for a thought-provoking premise, that’s for sure.

In closing, and to give it is full title of Sudarium: A Thriller - Jennifer Barnes discovers she was cloned from the DNA of Jesus. What could go wrong? is a book that not only brings forth a suspensefully written tale that thrills on many levels, but is devotedly chock full of well written characters, all elegantly threaded with a coming-of-age narrative that brings forth a world of captivating wonderment; one that is hard to forget once done.

About the Author - Chuck Shelton is the CEO of Greatheart Consulting, and a graduate of Fuller Theological Seminary (MA in Social Ethics). As one of the world’s few experts on engaging and equipping white executives and their mix of colleagues to lead more inclusively, he’s been interviewed and given more than 400 talks, including TV and radio. He lives in Issaquah, WA.

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