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...time has come. "In these days the Lord is trying to wake up people, and I think he's raising more people that are Christians in businesses," says Griffin. "He's given Christians favor because they do listen to him." Philip DeLizio, a real estate broker in Glen Burnie, Md., felt the time was right to join a network of Christian real estate agents: "Ever since 9/11, I think America as a whole has become maybe a little more religious or spiritual. I'm not going to say that was the reason we went into it, but the Christian community...
...Christian pitch won over Nancy Pitz, 56, a manager at Northrop Grumman. She liked the equipment at This Is It! Christian Fitness for Ladies in Pasadena, Md., and going there fit her schedule. But what really grabbed her were the King James Bibles and the wall that read, "And herein do I exercise myself to have always a conscience void of offense toward God and toward men." A bulletin board in the lobby posts a prayer list with such intentions as "safe and healthy weight loss"; the sound system plays hymns mixed to an aerobic beat. The gym is "about...
Religious hard sells like Trammell's can "absolutely risk alienating" non-Christians, says Irene Dickey, a Christian branding expert. When Mark Gadow of Preston, Md., registered his Christian Faith Driving School at the Department of Motor Vehicles, a worker there urged him to change the name. Gadow, a burly former policeman, persisted, painting giant fish on the sides of his Hyundai Tiburons. But when he dropped off applications at a public school, he later found them tossed in the trash. And one student angrily denounced God in class...
...turn a profit. Though store sales are jumping and profits are in sight, Barreto brightens most when he reports that 1,512 souls have been saved at his stores. For a Christian business owner, no number can improve that bottom line. --With reporting by Paige Akin/Blacksburg, Melissa August/Pasadena, Md., Deborah Edler Brown/Riverside, Calif., and Greg Fulton/Alpharetta
...everyone is waiting for the law to change. More and more hospitals are following the lead of pioneers like the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Lexington, Ky., and Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, Md., in establishing formal policies requiring medical staff to promptly admit and apologize for mistakes. Having adopted that approach, the University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor, which encompasses the university medical school, three hospitals and numerous other health facilities, has seen its annual number of malpractice claims and lawsuits drop almost 50%, from 260 in 2001 to 140 in 2004, and its average legal expense...