Thia Cooper is associate professor of religion at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minn., and the author of Controversies in Political Theology: Development or Liberation?

Gustavo Gutierrez is John Cardinal O’Hara Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. His book A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics and Salvation is considered a foundational work on Latin American liberation theology, and he contributed an essay to The Cambridge Companion to Liberation Theology.

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.

Dr. Don Colbert is a Christian nutritionist and dietitian who wrote What Would Jesus Eat?: The Ultimate Program for Eating Well, Feeling Great and Living Longer and The What Would Jesus Eat Cookbook (both from Thomas Nelson, 2002). He says that following a Mediterranean diet – full of the grains and vegetables known in Jesus’ time – can eliminate obesity. He […]

The Rev. George Malkmus is the founder of the Hallelujah Diet and Hallelujah Acres, a Shelby, N.C.-based Christian vegetarian and health ministry that promotes Bible-based diet and nutrition.

Read the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Zhuangzi, one of the major foundational texts of Taoism.