Shoppers Balance Beliefs, Business
Directory Identifies Christian Firms
By Nikita Stewart
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, March 5, 2006

On Faith appears the first Sunday of each month.

When Linda Brown needs to get her car fixed, she takes it to an auto repair shop that she found in the Shepherd's Guide, a directory of local businesses owned by self-professed Christians.

She turned to the guide again when her mother died and she needed a lawyer to handle the estate.

For Brown, 47, who worships at Victory Gospel Church in Manassas, using the Christian equivalent of the Yellow Pages is an expression of her faith and a smart way to shop. The rest