As a lifelong “guilty Catholic,” this book had special resonance for me. Despite attending church and what was called “Sunday school” during my formative years, sexual activity and awareness were rarely, if ever, discussed there. What little knowledge I acquired about God and sex I had to infer on the fly and, often, on my own.

Donna Mack’s incisive and illuminating treatise, “Our Godly Sexual Beings,” shines a whole new light on that missing link from the narrative of human sexuality and God’s attitude toward it. A culmination of 30 years of committed research and study,

Human sexuality is one of the most complex aspects of life, one that is necessary for propagating the species and also involves love, joy, beautiful feelings and often uncontrollable lust or perversion. Donna Mack, author of ‘Our Godly Sexual Beings,’ offers a spiritually elevating and historically/culturally informative look at a topic that makes many squeamish and uncomfortable.

A devout Christian, Mack offers the reader an amazing level of Biblical research to prove her primary thesis: Fallen angels destroyed God’s pure gift of human sexual love and, to quote from the text, for ‘thousands of years,

Sex has often been discussed in terms of lust and shame throughout history dating back to ancient times; in Our Godly Sexual Beings, author Donna Mack with Kristi Miller reveal the true pleasures of loving sex as sincerely special and spiritual experiences through in-depth research of the Bible, ancient texts, scholars spanning the past centuries and their own lives.

Donna Mack investigates how the experience of joyful sex has been perverted over the centuries from the earliest days of hedonism to today’s fascinations with internet pornography.

Sometimes one finds a book that puts together the pieces of a puzzle one has lived with for a lifetime. Donna Mack’s Our Godly Sexual Beings: The Fellowship of the Mystery is just such a book, examining the majesties and maladies of human sexuality. Most of us don’t have to look far to see that sex is truly one of the biggest mysteries of our existence. On the one hand, it can bring two people together to become one flesh, enjoying the heights of ecstatic pleasure, and even experiencing a mystical quality that some might describe as “divine.” On the other hand, all around us we can see the evidence of lives destroyed and the chaos caused by out of control sexual urges and the twisted sexuality prominent in our culture.

Author Donna Mack steps in during this time of increasing negativism about human sexuality as promoted on the internet in child pornography, sex trafficking, blackmailing on social media with nude photography, and harmful sexual counseling, resulting in a growing mistrust of beauties of sexual intimacy. In an erudite manner she presents her information resulting from years of research and spiritual study, supported by copious references to historic sources, writings of scholars, scriptural analysis, Oriental philosophies, and her accessible manner of presenting evidence from the Bible that supports her explanation that ‘God never intended for our sexual beings to be humiliated, mocked and trashed the way we see it today.’

The book Our Godly Sexual Beings: The Fellowship of the Mystery immediately grabs the attention of the reader, primarily because the combination of the adjectives “godly” and “sexual” are descriptors that are not often seen together and for many people seem to be opposites. Raised in a conservative Christian setting in the Deep South, author Donna Mack was full of questions that religion didn’t seem to answer. Among those questions was how such an extreme disconnection between sex and the God that created it could exist. How could the creation of a loving God become a force that is at the center of so much pain, destruction, and trauma in the lives of people?