Michelle Whittaker is communications director for the United Methodist Church’s General Board of Church and Society. Part of the GBCS’s mission is to promote “personal, social and civic righteousness.” Contact through the website.

Read world scriptures on honesty.

Read world scriptures on lying.

The Josephson Institute of Ethics conducted a survey of youth ethics in 2012. A similar survey is conducted annually. The 2012 survey showed a drop in lying, cheating, and stealing among American youth for the first time in a decade.

Read a collection of Bible quotations about lying and bearing false witness posted by Richard Anthony on Ecclesia.org.

The Harry Potter fan site MuggleNet.com posts a page listing university and college courses around the world based on the Harry Potter series.

Danielle Tumminio is a graduate of Yale Divinity school and an Episcopal priest. While at Yale, she taught a course called “Christian Theology and Harry Potter.” The class inspired a book, God and Harry Potter at Yale (Unlocking Press, 2010). She lives in Boston.

Kelly Collinsworth is an assistant professor of legal studies at Morehead State University in Morehead, Ky. She has taught a course called “Harry Potter in the Law,” which uses the series as a context in which to discuss the role of government and legal institutions.

Melissa D. Aaron is an English professor at California Polytechnic State University in Pomona. She teaches a literary and cultural studies course on the Harry Potter series.