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Self-Control – Easier Than Alternative Consequences
We all have self-control to some degree. There are all kinds of ways you show you have self-control every day. Make the list yourself. For all kinds of reasons–personal, legal, employment, family, social, religious–you restrain your speech and behaviors. You … Continue reading
Christmas Eve 2011: On the Unpopularity of the Non-Biblical Jesus
I am not advertising for the author of the book to the left, though I have found the book of great interest to me, and though I have found much in it with which I agree. The title of the … Continue reading
The Truth About September 11, 2011 – Need for Ethical Leadership
On this day, September 11, 2011, the truth is, America needs some good feelings, encouragement, and some source of renewed pride. So looking back ten years, when we were struck with tragedy, then looking back at how we all pulled … Continue reading
A Christian Scholar Writes to Christians About “9-11-01…Ten Years After”
September 11, 2001, was a historic watershed for America. Hate created the murders. Hate swept America in response. This paper’s three parts look at what happened; why it happened; how Muslims, like Osama bin Ladin came to hate America; how American foreign policies contributed to that hate; how Americans have their own deep, multi-generational hates here at home; and how mere retaliation and war do not get at the deeper understandings of the drivers and dynamics of hate in large groups. Part II looks at human aggression and violent personalities, genetics, psychopathology, the uses of religious texts by sick minds, and the adverse effects of technological society on healthy emotions and human bonding. Part III is a Christian address to other Christians to abandon past habits of easy recourse to violence, and to embrace Jesus’ teachings, example, and empathy for suffering people, in a nation and world needing more love than ever, not more religious retaliation waving nationalistic flags.
Part I is addressed to Christian readers from a Christian perspective. Part II is a general discussion of how aggressive and violent personalities are formed, and how religion can be used as a framework by violent personalities. Continue reading
Integrity and Personal Responsibility
Our word, integrity, is an almost exact transliteration of the Latin word, integritas, which means “undiminished condition…completeness…soundness…blamelessness.” Many people today do not connect the word “integrity” with “leadership” today because of wide gaps between the two in many leaders in … Continue reading
Fraud as an American Problem
Fraud is generally defined in the law as an intentional misrepresentation of material existing fact made by one person to another with knowledge of its falsity and for the purpose of inducing the other person to act, and upon which … Continue reading
Will YOU Be a Moral Leader in a Social Crisis?
This essay raises an important question. “If you are in a place where a social crisis occurs–an emergency where electrical power, telecommunications, food and water supplies, or gasoline availability, run out and large numbers of people panic–do you have the … Continue reading
Leadership and Legacy Thinking
In ancient Rome, a legatus was an ambassador, deputy, or governor sent to a province by the emperor. A legatum was a bequest or legacy. The words derive from the verb, lego, which means, “to send with a charge.” America … Continue reading
Inner-Driven Leadership in Negative Circumstances
Life is complex. Life brings us into contact daily with negative people and situations. Family, work, neighbors, national and international news, all can present us with negative information. The fact is, we cannot control others or conditions around us. We … Continue reading