Read a July 5, 2013, article on BuryTimes.com about the effect a Christian debt counseling charity has had.

Crown Financial Ministries is dedicated to providing support, skills and financial advising with a Christian perspective. They have a page of help articles on their website.

Watch a Feb. 23, 2009, Colbert Report episode with the Rev. James Martin, a Jesuit priest with an MBA who is a regular media commentator, discussing God and the economy.

Read an April 16, 2009, Boston Globe article about a Gordon College professor whose personal-finance presentations on campus and in the community draw from an 18th-century sermon about money by John Wesley, founder of Methodism.

View an April 17, 2009, Religion & Ethics Newsweekly segment about what religious groups are doing in Elkhart, Ind., where unemployment is almost 20 percent.

Read an April 24, 2009, Religion News Service story, “For financial guru Dave Ramsey, sour economy has an upside.”

Read a May 1, 2009, column in The New York Times, “Does God Want You to Be Bankrupt?,” about the approaches of different faith traditions to debt.

Caitlin Baggott is the executive director of The Bus Project, an Oregon project which engages young people in democracy and works to make politics more accessible, more equitable and more innovative.

Wynton Hall is a fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif. He is a frequent speaker at college seminars for young conservatives.