Ethical Houston

 As Christians, how can we live ethically and teach our children and grandchildren to be ethical?

Because of our society’s concerns about the actions of politicians, business persons, and the public in general, more and more attention is being given to the field of ethics.  Organizations and professional groups are adopting ethical standards for their constituents that seek to hold one another accountable and create an atmosphere of transparency around issues of ethics.  Parents are concerned about how to teach their children the difference between right and wrong values. Young people live in a world that most of us could not even imagine a few years ago.  Ethics can be confusing since they are often blurry and changing.  And whereas persons of good will develop a set of standards that they abide, when others break that ethical bond, the tendency of the society is to pass laws to define more fully what behavior is acceptable.  But, is that the answer? 

Ethical Houston seeks to provide an atmosphere of safety and trust to discuss issues of ethics that inform our lives as professionals, parents, grandparents, but most of all as Christians.  As Christians, how can we live ethically and teach our children to be ethical.  Be a part of the conversation and please feel free to comment on our articles or email us at franklinolson@sbcglobal.net

John Donne

All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated…As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all: but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness….No man is an island, entire of itself…any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”