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Business Week Magazine has devoted its latest issue to "Evangelical America", with several articles devoted to the subject.

Earthly Empires: How Evangelical Churches are borrowing from the business playbook

Culture Wars Hit Corporate America: Increasingly, business must weigh in on hot social issues -- and suffer interest groups' slings and arrows

A One-Stop Christian Destination: Kirbyjon Caldwell, a Wharton MBA turned pastor, discusses how his vision to build a prayer center turned into something much bigger

Supersizing Salvation: No cross, no hymnals, and a strong appeal to the "unchurched" -- that approach has helped Bill Hybels build one of the country's megacongregations

Meet the Prosperity Preacher

Evangelism gone Entrepreneurial

Church of the Almighty Dollar

Getting Your Religious Terms Right

The Fashion of the Christ

Slide Show about Willow Creek

These are very interesting and engaging articles from a business point of view. It shows how the churches are growing and the money is being made. It's a peek inside, so to speak. It's always good to look at religious establishments and successes from a non-critical and non-stressful point of view. This is what these articles do, and very well.