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...million Americans who call themselves born-again Christians rise in politics, culture and society, so too do they in business. Emboldened by a sympathetic White House, Christian business owners are increasingly meshing prayer with profits--marketing to the like-minded, proselytizing to the unbelieving. Whether the enterprises are new or established and coming out of the religious closet, their numbers are exploding. Listings in the Shepherd's Guide, the nation's leading Christian business directory, have more than doubled in five years. Michael Zigarelli, dean of the School of Business at Regent University, a Christian school in Virginia Beach...
Skow begins every business day praying with the top officers at his Integrity Bank. At the main branch in Alpharetta, a wood carving of the Prayer of Jabez hangs over the entryway, and Bibles are stacked up in the boardroom. But to attract customers, Integrity doesn't rely on prayer alone; it offers higher-than-average interest rates on CDs and checking accounts and reimburses atm fees charged by other banks. Some 10% of the bank's real estate loans are to churches--which don't get a special deal. Integrity, with $590 million in assets under management, went public...
...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 the individual and his or her relationship with God," says Pitz, working out on the adjustable hydraulic machine. "It's very exciting...
...they could trust, the network now has 400 agents, 50 loan officers and 100 inquiries a month. DeLizio opened his Maryland Christian Real Estate--right next door to his Re/Max office. "If someone comes in on the Re/Max side, we don't say, 'Let's bow our heads in prayer first...
Consumers offended by a business's religious bent can take their dollars next door. Employees don't have that freedom. Bosses break no laws by expressing their faith, hosting prayer picnics or painting passages from the Bible on the walls. What they can't do, says Washington lawyer Eric Siegel, is create hostile work environments for nonbelievers or discriminate by religion when hiring or firing. In 2004 courts found that Hewlett-Packard was justified in firing an employee who posted antihomosexual passages from the Bible on his cubicle and that Cox Communications could fire an evangelical Christian worker who criticized...