Deborah Smith Pegues is a businesswoman who was chief financial officer for the megachurch West Angeles Church of God in Christ in Los Angeles. She wrote the 2009 book Financial Survival in Uncertain Times.

Edd Noell is a professor of economics and business at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California, where he specializes in the history of economic thought and the relationship between Christianity and economics. He is president of the Association of Christian Economists.

The Rev. Ed Bacon is rector of All Saints Church in Pasadena, Calif., a congregation known for its progressive ideals and missions.

Charles McDaniel is a former businessman and now the associate director of the J.M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He wrote God & Money: The Moral Challenge of Capitalism, and he writes and teaches on “the developmental parallels between Muslim economic thought and Christian economic ideas as they evolved over the course of […]

Charles K. Wilber is an emeritus professor of economics at the University of Notre Dame. His article “Can a Christian Be an Economist?” ran in the spring/fall 2006 edition of the journal Faith & Economics.

Mike Slaughter is lead pastor at Ginghamsburg Church in Tipp City, Ohio, and author of the book Upside Living in a Downside Economy.

Paul Koch is an economics professor at Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais, Ill. He has written and presented on Christianity and economics.

Marybeth Whalen, along with her husband Curt, wrote the 2009 book Learning to Live Financially Free, based on their own financial mistakes. Contact the Charlotte, N.C., couple through publicist Leslie Paladino at their Grand Rapids, Mich., publisher, Kregel Publishing.

David Mustard is an associate professor of economics at the University of Georgia in Athens, and his economic research is frequently cited in the media. He serves on the executive board of the Association of Christian Economists.