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

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 […]

A Jan. 9, 2009, story from the Modesto Bee explains how the split over conservative and liberal sections of the Presbyterian church is amicable, compared to Episcopalians.

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

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

Rabbi Arthur Waskow is a Reconstructionist rabbi who is director of the Shalom Center, which promotes activism and education around Jewish environmentalism. He is the author of Down-to-Earth Judaism: Food, Money, Sex and the Rest of Life. Read his essay “Passover as if Earth Really Matters” in the April 2008 online edition of The Nation.

The Rev. Peter Colapietro is pastor at St. Malachy’s Catholic Church in New York City. The church calls itself “the actors’ chapel” and ministers to a large number of actors who live and work in New York City.

The Rev. Kurt C. Wiesner is an Episcopal priest in Littleton, N.H., and author of the blog One Step Closer: Religion & Popular Culture. See his blog entry after the death of Michael Jackson.