Robert Black teaches economics at Houghton College in Houghton, N.Y. He has written about Christian principles in economics.

The Greater Boston Interfaith Organization is a collection of multiple congregations and faith leaders working to overcome divisions of race and social class in Boston. Contact Larry Gordon, the lead organizer.

Bruce Webb teaches macroeconomics and Christian teaching on economics and the economy at Gordon College in Wenham, Mass.

Ibrahim Warde teaches Islamic banking and finance at Tufts University in Boston.

Isam Salah heads Islamic finance and investment at the New York law firm King & Spalding.

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.