Starbird's theological beliefs were profoundly shaken when she first encountered the suggestion that Jesus Christ was married and that his bloodline survived in Western Europe. Shocked by such heresy, she set out to refute it. Instead, she discovered new and compelling evidence of the existence of the lost bride of Jesus—the Mary who anointed him with precious unguent of nard from her alabaster jar (John 12:3). Starbird has written The Woman With the Alabaster Jar, The Feminine Face of Christianity, Magdalene's Lost Legacy and The Goddess in the Gospels.