21.   Genesis has this tendency more than most because even as a sacred text it is interdenominational.

22.   He is known as a translator of sacred texts and is steeped in Buddhist tradition.

23.   Home-grown faiths wrote their own sacred texts.

24.   If America has a sacred text, then the Declaration of Independence surely is it.

25.   In bringing a sacred text down to earth, Moser may just have created the Bible for our time.

26.   In songs flecked with phrases taken from proverbs and sacred texts, Madonna explores the terrain of the spiritual as she once investigated eroticism and social ambition.

27.   Its charismatic leader was J. Robert Oppenheimer, a thin, pipe-smoking physicist with a fondness for the Bhagavad Gita, the sacred Hindu text.

28.   Its authors relied on sacred texts from throughout the world to uncover a higher consciousness in the act of cooking and eating.

29.   Many sacred texts shaped American religious experience.

30.   Nevertheless, Sherry said, revision of sacred texts, whether hymns or translations of Scripture, must be taken with great care.