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DAVID VAN BIEMA, TIME's religion writer, was looking for a way to write about the state of atheism in America when he became intrigued with an even more fascinating story: the bizarre disappearance of Madalyn Murray O'Hair, America's best-known nonbeliever. No one has seen O'Hair since, as legend has it, she walked away from an unfinished breakfast in August 1995. Van Biema's pursuit of the missing activist took him to Austin, Texas, where her organization has its headquarters. The mystery deepened when his sources starting contradicting one another. "Those discrepancies roused my curiosity...
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...biblical practice.' Gomes applies this same distinction to biblical texts on slaves, Jews, women and homosexuals, explaining why each group?s persecution or exclusion, even if derived literally from Holy Writ, runs counter to its principles. "Fundamentalists will have little use for this book," says TIME's David Van Biema, "but its target audience just may be charmed back into the pews...
...David Van Biema and Steve Wulf, with bureau reports
DAVID VAN BIEMA reread the Book of Genesis three times--in three different translations--in preparation for writing this week's cover story. He was impressed not only with the book's importance as "one of the ultimate faith statements in our culture" but also with its power as "the granddaddy of family sagas." The reaction was typical of Van Biema, who is fascinated with how issues of faith affect both the secular and religious communities in America. In this, he was guided by the expertise and reporting of TIME's longtime religion correspondent Richard Ostling. The revival of interest...