Radio and TV personality Dave Ramsey is the author of The Total Money Makeover, among other books, and founder of Financial Peace University, a financial education program that churches and other groups use. Contact him through media relations.

Deborah Price is a money coach who writes the blog Your Daily Spiritual Stimulus for the multifaith Web site Beliefnet. She works with a network of 100 “money coaches” who she says are being asked to lead or facilitate programs through local religious groups. Contact her at the Money Coaching Institute in Petaluma, Calif.

The Rev. Gerry O’Hanlon is the author of The Recession and God: Reading the Signs of the Times and is director of the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice in Dublin. Contact through the center.

Jonathan Landon is a law student at the University of Iowa who completed research in May 2009 showing that ministers criticize such practices as predatory lending, but that those practices are often widespread in areas with high concentrations of Christians. Landon also found that churches sponsor educational programs to help congregants get out of debt.

Robert Katz is a New Orleans-based CPA, minister and author of books on personal finance, including The Solomon Portfolio: How to Invest Like a King.

Charles Clark is an economics professor at St. John’s University in New York and an expert on Catholic social teaching and economics.

Ron Blue is the founder of Ronald Blue & Co., a financial and investment consulting firm in the Atlanta area. He is a co-author of the 2009 book Surviving Financial Meltdown: Confident Decisions in an Uncertain World and president of Kingdom Advisors, a nationwide network of evangelical Christian financial professionals.

Chuck Bentley is CEO of Crown Financial Ministries, a prominent national Christian financial education ministry with representatives across the country and internationally.

Kingdom Advisors is a nationwide network of evangelical Christian financial professionals in almost 60 U.S. communities.