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.

Read an August 28, 2012, article at ChristianityToday.com analyzing the results of a poll analyzing the effects the recession had on churches’ budgets.

Read a March 23, 2011, Religion News Service article describing the steady incline of donations as the economic recession diminishes.

Read a March 22, 2012, Religion News Service article about how churches were affected by the recession.

Read an October 28, 2009, story on CNN.com about President Obama signing a bill that makes it a crime to assault someone based on their sexuality or gender.

Denise Eger is the rabbi of Congregation Kol Ami in West Hollywood, Calif. She is a well-known activist, most specifically with organizations devoted to fighting AIDS as well as on LGBT issues. The synagogue’s religious school has LGBT students and children of LGBT parents, and the rabbi runs a teen support group at the synagogue twice a […]