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.

This December 2011 research report by North Caroline State University reports on the increase of incidents in which church members ask their religious leaders for financial advice.

Read a December 2011 story published in the Huffington Post about Pope Benedict XVI’s connection between the world economic crisis and the lack of religious faith.