In Search of The Way: Reconsidering the Apostolic Church is a look at the church founded by Jesus the Christ, His apostles and disciples, in the first century A. D. The powerful teachings, faith, and miracles that enabled thousands to endure martyrdom early on, and indeed over the centuries since, cannot be the literalist, Bible-thumping, theatrical shouting and demanding folk we see on TV, can they? Nor can they be the sit-down-stand-up, turn-to-page-431-in-your-hymnal folk, or so it seems to me. And what of the pomp and pageantry of some? I see no evidence of that in the New Testament. What did the earliest believers have that we don’t? Did they have some understanding that we are missing? Did they have some teachings we are missing? Is the church today anything like its humble beginnings? This little book addresses these questions.

Reconsidering Jesus is an examination of the words attributed to Jesus in the Gospels, as seen through the eyes of the author, apart from biblical commentary or usual theological bias. Shelley is a “typical” spiritual seeker of her era who left the teachings of the Christian church to explore and practice a number of eastern spiritual paths and New Age philosophies. This book is a look at Jesus’ words from the distance required to let go of the traditional way of hearing them.