Cultivating Clarity and Transparency in Christian Investing

We provide independent education and research designed to help Christians think more carefully about stewardship, ownership, and long-term financial responsibility.

About Christian Investing Council

Clarity matters more than ever.

The growing movement of Christian investing needs trusted guidance.

Christian investing has grown rapidly over the last decade, and growth has brought a wider variety of approaches. Investors and institutions are navigating competing frameworks, unfamiliar terminology, varying transparency, and complex ethical questions without a clear place to begin.

CIC was formed as an independent nonprofit to help cultivate an ecosystem of clarity, humility and careful evaluation through education, practical frameworks, and thoughtful research.

What we do.

We create accessible educational resources that help investors and fiduciaries better understand the language, frameworks, and practical realities shaping Christian investing today.

We provide independent research and evaluation designed to bring greater transparency and accountability to products marketed within the Christian investing space.

We help foster thoughtful collaboration and shared standards across the Christian investing ecosystem, encouraging responsible leadership, clearer communication, and stronger public trust.

Mission and Vision

What guides our work.

We believe Christian investing requires thoughtful frameworks, intellectual honesty, and a willingness to ask difficult questions. CIC was established to provide actionable resources rooted in the Christian faith and informed by ecumenical consensus, enabling stewards to align their investing with the beliefs, character, and mission of the Christian faith.

We recognize that Christians approach investing questions with different convictions, traditions, and priorities. CIC seeks to encourage careful discernment, shared wisdom, and transparent evaluation while remaining grounded in a broad commitment to faithful stewardship aligned with historic Christian belief and practice.

Faithfulness

We seek to honor the Triune God and his word in how we serve Christian investors. Faithfulness signifies our commitment to serve investors in ways that honor the purposes of the Father, the mission of the Son, and the empowering of the Holy Spirit.

Transparency

We seek to communicate openly regarding our beliefs, methods, and decisions. Transparency signifies our commitment to maintain verifiable accountability and integrity in our operations, communications, and evaluation of investments.

Independence

We seek to educate investors without favoritism for any entity or product. Independence signifies our commitment to ensure that our evaluations and publications are fair, disinterested, and impartial.

Team

Meet the team.

Our team includes individuals with backgrounds across investing, theology, research, leadership, and institutional stewardship, all united by a shared commitment to thoughtful approaches and transparency.

Staff Members

Greg Forster

Executive Director

Tim Macready

Director of Research

Deb Solomon

Operations Manager

Board Members

Ken Barnes

Professor of Workplace Theology and Business Ethics, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary

Luke Bolton

Executive for Strategic Relationships, Kingdom Advisors

Ralph Kindred

Principal, StratzGroup

Aimee Minnich

CIO, Impact Foundation

Ben Nicka

McDonald Doctoral Scholar in Christian Ethics and Public Life and Peregrine Scholar, University of Oxford

Nicholas Schmitz

Traviesa Chair of Finance, Catholic University of America

Rob West

CEO, Kingdom Advisors

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Frequently Asked

What is the Christian Investing Council?

The Christian Investing Council, Inc. is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) serving investors and the general public by publishing educational materials, theological documents on Christian investing, and evaluation of investment products marketed to Christians.

Our board and staff bring professional expertise in theology and finance. We are intentionally ecumenical, bringing together a wide range of Christian traditions (including Catholics and Protestants) through our shared commitment to the Nicene Creed.

What are the beliefs of the Christian Investing Council?

Our published documents, such as the CIC Statement on Christian Investing, represent our commitment to the Christian faith, expressed in the Nicene Creed and historically applied to financial markets through Christian tradition.

We recognize a variety of viewpoints on specific issues within this history and are not seeking to impose uniformity in cases where authentic Christian beliefs have historically varied. However, where the Christian tradition reflects more unity, we seek to uphold that unity.

At times, the Council’s stated religious beliefs need to address issues that are subject to significant social controversy. Our approach is to step back from current social and political passions, to ground our beliefs in the wisdom of the Bible and to take a long-term view of the community that has historically embodied the Christian tradition.

While Christian tradition includes instances where wisdom has developed over time, we draw a distinction between authentic development and radical reinterpretations of Christianity that break with historic Christian belief and practice. This distinction is vital to the Council’s ability to maintain fidelity and avoid captivity to short-term perspectives.

Whom does CIC represent?

We are a broad community of Christians, Catholic and Protestant, applying theological wisdom to investing. We seek to represent the theological beliefs of historic communities of Christian faith across a broad denominational scope over the last two millennia.

We are committed to listening well to others, who may or may not share our Christian beliefs, and we remain open to learning from their insights. We are not an arm or extension of any denominational body, and do not claim to speak on behalf of any other specific group of investors, Christian or non-Christian.

Are you a registered investment advisor or financial advisory firm?

No. The Christian Investing Council is a 501(c)(3) and is not a registered investment advisor.

We draw on our published religious beliefs to evaluate investment products marketed to Christian investors. We do not offer personalized financial or investing advice, and our published opinions should not be interpreted as investing advice.

Our investment evaluation process is transparent, well documented and independent from consideration of any actual or potential relationship, endorsement or remuneration.

Our published religious beliefs explain what we believe and how we apply those beliefs to investment evaluation.