I recently read your review of “The Da Vinci Code” and I am writing to inform you that I wholeheartedly disagree with your views. Mr. Brown has done a tremendous amount of research into the earliest history of the Christian church, most of which is easily accessible and is considered fact, by both Christians and non-Christians alike. I am a middle school teacher at a Catholic school, teaching the Old Testament to children between eleven and twelve years of age and the one problems that I encounter on a daily basis with both my students and more commonly their parents is that they are unaware of the true history of the church.

I was thinking that this must be a joke, but taking in the whole letter, I don’t think it is. Well, it is a joke, but not the kind I was hoping.