What is the connection between faith and investing?
ICCR members believe that as responsible stewards they must invest their saved resources — pensions and endowments — in ways that are consistent with their faith values. Since their faith calls them to promote peace, economic justice and stewardship of the universe, they believe they should not profit from production or sale of unsafe or harmful products; from exploitation of human weakness; from violation of human rights, production for war, racism, sexual exploitation or destruction of the environment and so on. They believe they should encourage safe and healthy production methods, forgiveness of debt for poor nations and investment in sustainable development, equal employment opportunity, diversity in management and in boards of directors and payment of living wages. ICCR began in the early 1970s in part as an outgrowth of opposition to the Vietnam War. Like anti-war students of the day, progressive clergy questioned whether churches were profiting off the war, which most ICCR me
