Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly managing editor Kim Lawton says faith-based community activists are talking with the Obama administration transition team about how the government can do more to stop preventable foreclosures.

The recent economic debacle should cause us to reread, or perhaps read for the first time, the Christian theological tradition and how it inextricably relates economic exchange to morality (our quest for the good) and to God.

The financial crisis and proposals to solve it: What do religious voices have to say?

We explore the ethical issues underlying the financial meltdown with Rebecca Blank, an economist, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and co-author of the book "Is the Market Moral?"

Two-and-a-half years after Hurricane Katrina destroyed 475 homes and damaged many more in D'Iberville, Mississippi on Biloxi Bay, people are rebuilding.

For the millions of American stockholders, among them many faith groups, there is conventional investing and there is so-called socially responsible investing.

Back in the 1970s a young graduate of an evangelical college, a white man from Iowa, moved into a high-crime area of Chicago called Lawndale, a mostly African-American neighborhood. Some of the young people there told him they wanted to start a church. So he helped them do it, with enormous effect.

The messages of the advertising business help sell billions of dollars worth of products. But do they also coarsen American culture? And if so, who's to blame -- the ad agencies or us consumers?

A story now about business executives and would-be executives who want to be not only rich and powerful, but happy too.

Lucky Severson reports on companies in which ethics remains an essential part of the business plan.