Demonstrating Integrity Tactfully

Having integrity doesn't mean you have to become an obnoxious morality enforcer who piously pontificates every time the company sails into murky ethical ...

Passengers Trade First Class Seats with Soldiers

On a flight from Atlanta to Chicago in July 2004, nine U.S. soldiers—home from Iraq on a two-week leave—were among the passengers. Before ...

Women Build Auto Parts Company on Integrity

In 1978, two women began their own business—Wetherill Associates, Inc—in an industry not typically associated with female entrepreneurs: automobile ...

What Makes a Good Leader?

What makes a good leader? That question was asked by the Army War College in a study of highly regarded major generals in Iraq. Subordinates rated the ...

Medals Awarded 60 Years Late

Eighty-one-year-old Peter Furtak of suburban Chicago served as a private first class in the 9th Armored Division during World War II. During an operation ...

Hardball Takes Over Public Life

At the beginning of the 21st century, reasoned discourse [is imperiled]. Reasoned discourse is increasingly giving way to in-your-face sound bites….Hardball ...

Corrected by a Homeless Man's Rebuke

A homeless man in New York City rebuked me one day. I found him going through a trashcan on the side of our Manhattan church building. Frankly, I was ...

Bono and Helms Model Acceptance

In a June 2001 column, religion columnist Terry Mattingly writes:

As lunch ended in the ornate U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee conference room, ...

Unselfish Tip

Many years ago, a ten-year-old boy walked up to the counter of a soda shop and climbed onto a stool. He caught the eye of the waitress and asked, "How ...

Raising Bart Simpson

"I now have a 7-year-old boy and a 9-year-old boy, so all I can say is, I apologize. Now I know what you guys were talking about."