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Business:

• Act of tyranny | What if a state legislature enacted, and a state Supreme Court upheld, a law forcing family businesses operated by Orthodox Jews to remain open on the Sabbath? (Terence P. Jeffrey, The Washington Times)
  
  
• The challenge of religion reporting | Beginning on March 4, 2003, The Gleaner through a new two-page weekly product called Mind & Spirit decided to target seriously what is perhaps the single biggest niche in Jamaica the church-going public (Jamaica Gleaner)
  
  
• Morality and trade | It's no wonder that religious believers, both liberal and conservative, find great fault with globalization. From Pope John Paul II to the Dalai Lama, from liberal Protestant ministers to anti-modernist Muslim imams, globalization has been condemned as a perversion of the concept of prosperity that "leaves very little space for values such as solidarity and altruism," to quote the pontiff. (Ira Rifkin, Baltimore Sun)
  
  
• Pursuing justice one cup at a time | Congregations embrace fair-trade coffee, goods (The Washington Post)
  
  

Popular Jesus:

• Biblical action figures riding wave of popularity | Jesus is with us, and he comes with poseable arms (The Gazette, Colorado Springs)
  
  
• What a trend we have in Jesus | … but is pop culture looking for religion - or entertainment? (Detroit News)
  
  

Television:

• An edgy show about God | 'Joan of Arcadia' becomes unlikely hit (CNN)
  
  

Health:

• Methodists to offer prescription discounts | The United Methodist Church plans to offer free prescription-drug discount cards to its members, and some churches may extend the benefit to other congregations (Associated Press)
  
  
• Native Canadians seek ways of healing | With government aid, the villagers are trying to heal, mixing Western psychological tools with traditional religious ceremonies to try to draw a line on a history of abuse that they and social workers say has become a generational legacy that threatens to shatter their people permanently (The New York Times)
  
  

Music:

• Tuning in to CrossTones | Boulder-based Christian radio show aims to bring music to followers (The Daily Camera, Boulder, Colo.)
  
  
• The heartfelt Mass of a humanist | Instead of being an act of worship, voiced by people together speaking of God in hallowed surroundings, the Mass in Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis" becomes a text to be considered, even pummeled, for its truth by one person so that others may consider it for themselves (The New York Times)
  
  
• Tackling two religious monuments back to back | The chorus and orchestra brought a compassionate yet unsentimental approach to two demanding works performed at Alice Tully Hall and Avery Fisher Hall over the weekend (The New York Times)
  
  
• Gospel singer Hammond gives rousing performance | Fred Hammond makes it looks so easy. Arguably the most successful black gospel artist to play Rockford in the last 10 years, Hammond struck just the right balance between polished entertainment and worship service when he performed in concert Tuesday night at First Evangelical Free Church. (Rockford Register Star, Illinois)
  
  

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March (Web-only) 2004, Vol. 48