Rebellion to Redemption: Redeeming His Money in a World of Compromise is by Eric Boyum, published in 2025 (ISBN 979-8-8976408-4-3).
This is a book about investing, not budgeting
Our old title framed this as a book to help you master your finances, which suggested budgets, debt, and spending. That is not what it is. Boyum’s subject is where your invested money goes, and specifically the argument that many Christians hold funds with money in companies whose business they would object to if they looked.
That is a narrow subject with a specific audience. If your financial question is how to get out of debt or stop overspending, this book does not address it. If you already have investments and have never examined what is inside them, it is aimed at you.
The argument
The field is usually called biblically responsible investing, and the core claim is that ownership is not neutral. Owning a share means owning a piece of a business, and Boyum argues Christians should apply the same conscience to that as to anything else they fund. He works through screening out categories he considers indefensible and toward what he frames as investing with eternal purpose.
He writes with financial transparency about his own history, which is where the “rebellion to redemption” of the title comes from. The tone is more confrontational than most finance books.
Two disclosures you should have
First, Eric Boyum is a practicing financial advisor. He is a Certified Kingdom Advisor with close to twenty years of experience working with Christian business owners and high-net-worth individuals, based in Boise, Idaho. That is real experience and it is also a commercial interest: the book and the practice point at each other. Read it knowing that.
Second, and this is our own disclosure: Called to Better does not give investment advice, and nothing here is a recommendation about what to do with your money. We are telling you what the book argues and who wrote it. Screening decisions, fund choices, and anything touching your actual portfolio are between you, your conscience, and a professional you have chosen yourself.
The honest counterpoint
Screened funds carry their own tradeoffs, and thoughtful Christians disagree about whether screening is the most effective use of conscience or whether shareholder engagement, giving, or simply where you spend does more good. The book does not spend much time on that disagreement. Worth knowing you are reading one side of a live argument.
Where we land
Useful and pointed if you have investable assets and have never looked at what you own. Not the right book for someone whose money problem is the ordinary one of not having enough of it left at the end of the month.
Rebellion to Redemption by Eric Boyum on Amazon