Looking for advice or resources to read on investing aligned with UU values.

I am about to start a relationship with a financial advisor to manage our investments. My wife and I want to start our investment journey with a good faith attempt at following our faith’s values and principles and avoid investing in companies that are not aligned with these values, for example, gun manufacturers or big oil. Our financial advisor is on board with and respects this approach but has given us the disclaimer that this is incredibly difficult to do with index funds since so many companies we may want to opt out of are intertwined with others. Example: the oil company is in index A, but the marketing company for the oil company is in index B, and the server farm company for the oil company is in index C and so on.

I also suffer from the ignorance of the unknown-unknown, and know very little about investing and all the possible companies that could be causing harm, and the purpose of getting a financial advisor is to have someone else worry about this who knows more than me so I can focus on doing other things with my time. Given a lot of extraneous reasons, I’m not interested in searching for a different financial advisor.

Is there a better way? I have thought about letting my financial advisor take the wheel, and using a portion of my gains to give toward people and foundations making a positive difference in the world, my own privileged version of wealth redistribution if you will.

Those of you who have come before us on this topic, how did you approach this? I’d love to pick your brain.

I grew up without religion or religious education. I tried reading the Bible when I was younger, just to see what all the fuss was about, but got so turned off by Lot and his daughters that I didn’t continue. I feel self-conscious of the allegories in western literature and culture that I don’t fully grasp because I don’t know the stories of the Bible. I want to try to understand where fundamentalists are coming up with their way of thinking. I want to understand history better. I want to know what the Bible really says, not what people say it does. Now 4 years into being a UU, I want to give it another shot, read the whole Bible, and approach it critically, like in a Jefferson Bible fashion. Has anyone else made this journey to tackle the “big book”? Is there a commonly agreed upon version, or one that religious scholars typically use? Any recommendations for making a read-through meaningful or successful?