Read a May 23, 2013, analysis at Religion News Service on how the Catholic Church is struggling to welcome openly gay members who are not allowed to take up ministry roles.

Read a May 31, 2013, story in the Los Angeles Times about a openly gay bishop elected to a Lutheran church.

The Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission prepared a suggested bulletin insert in response to the Supreme Court rulings on gay marriage.

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.

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

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.

Author and speaker Berit Kjos, who leads Kjos Ministries in California, opposes the Harry Potter series.