Oxfam International is a confederation of 17 different organizations that work in 90 countries to reduce poverty worldwide. They work in the political arena, in emergency relief and in grassroots community development projects.

Sarah McFarland Taylor is an associate professor of religion at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. She is the author of Green Sisters: A Spiritual Ecology, about the growing number and strength of environmentally activist Roman Catholic nuns. She is co-editor of Religion and Outer Space, a volume exploring religion in and on the final frontier. She […]

Read an Aug. 21, 2012, article from Time magazine about the correlation between religion and the amount of money people give to charity.

Jame Schaefer is an associate professor of theology at Marquette University in Milwaukee. She specializes in the intersection of Christian, and especially Catholic, theology and the sciences, including environmental science.

Read a May 22, 2010, article from the Dallas Morning News about the impact of decreasing church donations on church spending.

The Rev. David M. Rhoads is a professor emeritus of New Testament at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. He is the editor of a collection of sermons called Earth and Word: Classic Sermons on Saving the Planet and director of the Green Congregation Program, which works to help Lutheran congregations in the Midwest become […]

Read a March 27, 2012, article from Religion News Service (posted by The Washington Post) about an increase in church spending.

Steven Bouma-Prediger is the author of For the Beauty of the Earth: A Christian Vision for Creation Care. He is a professor of religion at Hope College in Holland, Mich., where he leads the environmental studies program.

Read an Aug. 1, 2007, Christian Science Monitor story about churches turning to electronic giving options.