Start where you are... Use what you have... Do what you can...
(paraphrased from a quote by Arthur Ashe)
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Start where you are... Use what you have... Do what you can... (paraphrased from a quote by Arthur Ashe) |
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We three, Bruce, Craig and Joe, are the authors of a recently published book Where in the World is Integrity: The Challenge of Doing What Is Right (Augsburg Books, 2005). In 2002 we formed Integrity In... LLC as we developed the Integrity In... website used to collect integrity stories for the book. Now we have opened this Integrity In... Blog to encourage broad conversations about integrity and perhaps even to collect yet more stories for possible future books.
Where In The World Is Integrity?: The Challenge Of Doing What Is Right, is a book of stories, short vignettes by ordinary people who tell about some incident that, for them, represents integrity. It is a book of optimism for a hopeful future as a counter to pervasive news reports of the lack of integrity in business, politics, civic life, and even athletics. See Where in The World is Integrity? for more information.
Has integrity become an inconvenience? Moral values have been thrust into mainstream discussions by a host of cultural concerns and a loud voice from a segment of the Christian community. This Integrity In... blog discussion will gather that conversation under the umbrella of integrity.
This Integrity In... blog is open to anyone. We want to hear what you think. We want to listen to you as you tell about the integrity you already see. We want to talk with you about how you foster integrity where you live, work and play. We want the conversations on this blog to enable you and others to see the often-invisible integrity of everyday conduct. We want to ask you how you get your friends to discuss actions of integrity with their friends or children, for instance. Together we can acknowledge acts of integrity by people in other countries, other cultures and other religions. Together, let's start where we are, use what we have, and do what we can.
The value, integrity, was chosen because it encompasses so many other moral values; for instance, trust, honesty and doing what is right. Our focus is on acts of integrity. Acts of integrity happen in a particular place; a family dining room conversation during a Sunday dinner, the Wellstone Middle School Playground at recess, the fresh vegetable isle of the local Just Foods grocery store, a tough biology final exam, the photocopy space of an electronics firm, by the CEO in the boardroom as board members around the table plan for a company-wide reduction in health benefits, the back seats of a US airliner on 9/11/01 as it appears that the plane has been hijacked, and during a vote on whether or not to encourage our government to go to war.
Bruce B. Roberts, Ph.D. roberts@stolaf.edu, Professor Emeritus of
Psychology, has been an administrator, and a faculty member of the
Department of Psychology at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota, for 33
years.
More Information About Bruce B. Roberts
Craig D. Rice, M.A., cdr@stolaf.edu, is the Associate Director for Information Systems in the Office of Information and Instructional Technologies at St. Olaf College and the President of the UniYatra Group, LLC. More Information about Craig D. Rice
Joe E. Smith, D.Min. jandjsmith@comcast.net, lives in Portland, Oregon, and has retired after 30 years as pastor of St. James Lutheran Church in downtown Portland. More Information About Joe Smith
People see as meaningful only what their observation tools allow them to see as being meaningful, money perhaps, or bravery, or winning. If people don't have the tools to see honesty, diligence, care and thoughtfulness, for instance, as being meaningful, then they will not see them as they look for integrity.
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