Ethics crisis in America? Church leaders say yes

Photo

By Carey Gillam

KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) – From billion-dollar ponzi schemes to bad mortgages and pay-to-play dealings by public officials, some are asking: Is there a crisis of ethics in America?

The swirl of corruption, fraud and greed stretching from Wall Street to Main Street has many U.S. church leaders saying the answer is a resounding yes — America is facing not only an economic meltdown, but also a moral one. And they are rushing to bring flocks back into the fold.

“Honesty is honesty. It doesn’t matter if you are Christian, Jewish, Muslim, whatever. A lot of these debacles we’re seeing can be traced and sourced back to a lack of good old ethics,” said the Rev. Jerry Johnston, who this month launched a 12-part series of sermons on ethics at First Family Church in Overland Park, Kansas, which has about 5,000 members.

Johnston is one of a number of religious leaders and scholars who say the current spate of troubled times are an opportunity to lead more Americans into church pews and to prayer.

“We’re beginning to see this across the nation,” said Ken Eldred, a California technology company entrepreneur who writes books about the role of religion in business. “There has been a crisis of ethics … and I think sadly it is quite significant. People think business has nothing to do with faith, that honesty is not always the best policy. But when you take that away, people end up worse overall.”

For Full Article, see below:

Ethics crisis in America? Church leaders say yes | U.S. | Reuters.

No related posts.

Tags: , , , , ,

Leave a Reply

Calendar
January 2009
M T W T F S S
    Feb »
 1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728293031  
Categories
My Communities
  • February 7
    “In a passionate age enthusiasm is the unifying principle, in a passionless, very reflective age envy is the negatively unifying principle.” ——————————————————- ~Source: The Journals (1845) Author: Søren Kierkegaard Filed under: Blooms Tagged: The Journals (1845) […]
  • February 6
    “Imagine a gathering of worldly-minded, timorous people whose highest law in everything is a slavish regard for what others, what ‘they’ will say and judge, whose sole concern is that unchristian concern that ‘everywhere they speak well’ of them, whose admired goal is to be just like the others, whose sole inspiring and whose sole […]
  • February 5
    “And are there not many people who are like that, who own nothing except in the moment when they show it to others, who grasp only the surface, not the essence, who lose everything if this appears…” ——————————————————– ~Source: Either/Or (1843) Author: Søren Kierkegaard using the pseudonym Victor Eremita Filed under: Blooms Tagged: Either/Or, Victor […]
  • February 4
    “All ironical observations depend upon paying attention to the ‘how,’ whereas the gentleman with whom the ironist has the honor to converse is attentive only to the ‘what.’ A man protests loudly and solemnly, ‘This is my opinion.’ However, he does not confine himself to delivering this formula verbatim, he explains himself further, he ventures […]
  • February 3
    “It is not impossible that it might occur to man to imagine himself the equal of God, or to imagine God the equal of man, but not to imagine that God would make himself into the likeness of man; for if God gave no sign, how could it enter into the mind of man that […]
  • February 2
    “So they sat in their quiet sorrow: they did not harden themselves against the consolation of the world; they were humble enough to acknowledge that life is a dark saying, and as in their thought they were swift to listen to see if there might be an explanatory word, so were they also slow to […]
  • February 1
    “But when it is a duty to love, there no test is needed and the insulting stupidity of wishing to test is superfluous; since love is higher than any proof, it has already more than met the test, in the same sense that faith ‘more than conquers.’ The very fact of testing always presupposes a […]
  • January 31
    “Why did Kant begin with quantity, Hegel with quality?” ——————————————————– ~Source: The Journals (1842) Author: Søren Kierkegaard Filed under: Blooms Tagged: The Journals (1842) […]
iLike
Connections
Contributions
View my FriendFeed
Connect with me!
Seeing the World!
Blog Network