FROM saucy cable-TV channels that miraculously vanish from the hotel bill to after-hour assignations in unfamiliar cities, business travel has always contained its share of temptations. How to resist?

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Long before cable television, spa treatments and eco-friendly soaps and shampoos became staples in hotel rooms, there was the Bible — the Gideon Bible. And the book with the ...

Ever met a Gideon? Know anything about their core beliefs? Their religious ambitions? Their impact? In a world virtually awash with often in-your-face religious groups intent on showing the weary the ...