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This book, "Epistles From a Modern Christian" is a collection of e-mails that the author wrote in 2004 to friends who are interested in the story of Jesus Christ. Mr. Jungers is a member of a group of some three hundred ex-Jesuits, who regularly correspond by e-mail with one another on matters of faith and morals. This collection of his e-mails is but a snapshot of time amidst an on-going dialogue. There is, however, one event that dominates, and that is the release of Mel Gibson's movie, "The Passion of the Christ". Released on Ash Wednesday of 2004, the movie has galvanized the debate over how Americans interpret the story of Jesus of Nazareth, as reported in the Gospels, and as interpreted by Mel Gibson. Does the movie present the story of Christ accurately? Is it, "It is as it was"? Or is it a distortion based on Gibson's pre-Vatican II understanding of Christianity? The author comes down on the side of approval for Gibson's desire to present the last twelve hours of Christ's life on the big screen to educate us on how brutal and bloody the events really were. The movie is, indeed, shocking in its brutality, but, Mr. Jungers contends, not unrealistically so. Most Christians grow up with a sanitized view of the Passion and Death of Jesus of Nazareth. This movie adds flesh to our weekly profession of "he suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried".  The content of these e-mails is further education on the "vera et sincera" of Jesus of Nazareth, from a modern Christian, well versed in the Scriptures and traditions of the Christian Church.