Into Integrity--Into 2020
Moral Lives Matter
Love truth, peace, and
people
Moral Lives Matter
Unite for integrity--Live in integrity
#HealUsToo -- #MyOrganizationToo
#BlackLivesMatter -- #PetraPeopleNet
#GlobalIntegrityDay
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“These are the things you are to do: Speak the truth to each other
and render true and sound judgment in your courts; do not plot evil against each other,
and do not love to swear falsely. I hate all this,” declares the Lord…
Therefore love truth and peace.” Zechariah 8:16,19
#HealUsToo -- #MyOrganizationToo
#BlackLivesMatter -- #PetraPeopleNet
#GlobalIntegrityDay
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“These are the things you are to do: Speak the truth to each other
and render true and sound judgment in your courts; do not plot evil against each other,
and do not love to swear falsely. I hate all this,” declares the Lord…
Therefore love truth and peace.” Zechariah 8:16,19
Warm greetings!
1. Fight Racism and Corruption
We are standing in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in the USA and all around the world who are fighting the corruption of entrenched racism as well as the many forms of exploitation including massive human rights violations, gross inequalities, and pervasive multi-dimensional poverty. You must not be forgotten and forsaken. In new ways in the coming days, we call on us all to not only demand change and work for change, but to be the change ourselves. See "Seven Ways You Can Step Up for Racial Justice Now" (Global Citizen, 2 June 2020).
Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering toward slaughter. If you say, “But we knew nothing about this,” does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who guards your life know it? Will he not repay everyone according to what they have done? Proverbs 24:11-12
2. Global Integrity Day
We are also launching the first Global Integrity Day, commemorating it on 9 June 2020. This special, annual day is something which we have been calling for since December 2016, to “put the global spotlight on moral health for a more-whole world” (see Global Integration Update, January 2019).
It is a positive day to reflect, teach, and collaborate on ways to integrate integrity in all we do throughout the entire year. It is a day to promote: a) cultivating lifestyles of integrity from the individual through the international levels; b) working together to address the causes and consequences of corruption in its many forms; and c) collaborating for just and equitable societies marked with wellbeing for all persons/peoples and for the planet (see Everyday Global Heroes: Moral Lives Matter, January 2017).
Global Integrity Day is also a solemn day to consider our ways: if we are lying and/or stealing in any way big or small, then stop it. If we need to right a wrong we have done, then do so. Be the people we need--Build the world we need.
We hope in due course that it will be designated both as a new United Nations International Day and as a companion day to the already designated International Anti-Corruption Day (9 December). In the meantime, we invite friends and colleagues around the world, and organizations large and small, to join together in solidarity, finding common ground for the common good, to commemorate this special day and its inauguration on 9 June 2020 and throughout the year.
More information is on the new website for Global Integrity Day. Towards the bottom of the site there is an opportunity to stand in solidarity by publicly endorsing this special Day—this ongoing effort--as an individual, project, organization, and/or network.
1. Fight Racism and Corruption
We are standing in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in the USA and all around the world who are fighting the corruption of entrenched racism as well as the many forms of exploitation including massive human rights violations, gross inequalities, and pervasive multi-dimensional poverty. You must not be forgotten and forsaken. In new ways in the coming days, we call on us all to not only demand change and work for change, but to be the change ourselves. See "Seven Ways You Can Step Up for Racial Justice Now" (Global Citizen, 2 June 2020).
Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the
rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and
needy. Proverbs
31:8-9
Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering toward slaughter. If you say, “But we knew nothing about this,” does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who guards your life know it? Will he not repay everyone according to what they have done? Proverbs 24:11-12
2. Global Integrity Day
We are also launching the first Global Integrity Day, commemorating it on 9 June 2020. This special, annual day is something which we have been calling for since December 2016, to “put the global spotlight on moral health for a more-whole world” (see Global Integration Update, January 2019).
It is a positive day to reflect, teach, and collaborate on ways to integrate integrity in all we do throughout the entire year. It is a day to promote: a) cultivating lifestyles of integrity from the individual through the international levels; b) working together to address the causes and consequences of corruption in its many forms; and c) collaborating for just and equitable societies marked with wellbeing for all persons/peoples and for the planet (see Everyday Global Heroes: Moral Lives Matter, January 2017).
Global Integrity Day is also a solemn day to consider our ways: if we are lying and/or stealing in any way big or small, then stop it. If we need to right a wrong we have done, then do so. Be the people we need--Build the world we need.
We hope in due course that it will be designated both as a new United Nations International Day and as a companion day to the already designated International Anti-Corruption Day (9 December). In the meantime, we invite friends and colleagues around the world, and organizations large and small, to join together in solidarity, finding common ground for the common good, to commemorate this special day and its inauguration on 9 June 2020 and throughout the year.
More information is on the new website for Global Integrity Day. Towards the bottom of the site there is an opportunity to stand in solidarity by publicly endorsing this special Day—this ongoing effort--as an individual, project, organization, and/or network.
3. Into Integrity Update
Today 6 June 2020 marks the start of the Into Integrity FAST one year ago. We continue to call for the assistance and integrity of specific Christian organizations, leaders, and people affected by the international NCI fraud: verifiably disclose via internal and independent reviews and do what is “good, right, and true before the Lord your God’ (2 Chronicles 31:20). Have a listen to our podcast: Awaken the Good—Heal the Body: A Personal Exhortation for Specific Leaders (20 December 2019). And we continue in the ongoing efforts to call for and pray for repentance and healing in the international Church Mission Community. Have a listen to ourpodcast: Confronting Corruption in Our Midst: Principles for Courage, Integrity and Action (12 December 2019).
Today 6 June 2020 marks the start of the Into Integrity FAST one year ago. We continue to call for the assistance and integrity of specific Christian organizations, leaders, and people affected by the international NCI fraud: verifiably disclose via internal and independent reviews and do what is “good, right, and true before the Lord your God’ (2 Chronicles 31:20). Have a listen to our podcast: Awaken the Good—Heal the Body: A Personal Exhortation for Specific Leaders (20 December 2019). And we continue in the ongoing efforts to call for and pray for repentance and healing in the international Church Mission Community. Have a listen to ourpodcast: Confronting Corruption in Our Midst: Principles for Courage, Integrity and Action (12 December 2019).
Moral lives matter.
Love truth, peace, and people.
Unite for integrity—Live in integrity.
Love truth, peace, and people.
Unite for integrity—Live in integrity.
Best wishes from Europe and the USA,
Kelly and Michèle
prointegritynet@gmail.com
Integrity is moral
wholeness—living consistently in moral wholeness. Corruption is
moral rottenness, the opposite of integrity--the distortion, perversion, and
deterioration of moral goodness, resulting in the exploitation of people. Global integrity is
living consistently in moral wholeness at all levels--individual,
interpersonal, institutional, and international--across sectors and settings,
local through global, systemic and structural.
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Don’t be intimidated. Eventually everything is going to be out in
the open, and everyone will know how things really are. So don’t hesitate to go
public now. Don’t be bluffed into silence by the threats of bullies. There’s
nothing they can do to your soul, your core being. Save your fear for God, who
holds your entire life—body and soul—in his hands. Matthew 10: 26-28, The Message
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Thank you for your
encouragement, support, and prayers.
Love never ceases.
Love never ceases.
The purpose of Into Integrity is to call attention to--and confront--the lack of disclosures by specific organizations/leaders/people affected by the international Nordic Capital Investment KB fraud (NCI) as well as the related, wrongful dismissals directed at Kelly and Michèle O’Donnell. It has featured a 40 day FAST (part one 6-26 June 2019 and part two 6-26 December 2019): FAsting for genuine contrition and STriking for resolute action within the Church Mission Community (CMC).
Going further--See also:
--links for comments by colleagues expressing their strong support for the specific calls to people and organizations for integrity, disclosures, and confronting wrongful dismissals;
--links for the Into Integrity podcasts and blogposts: seven by Kelly (Part One, June 2019) and seven by Michèle and Kelly (Part Two, December 2019);
--links to the latest PETRA People weblog focusing on a) New Resources for Confronting the Corruption Pandemic and b) continuing the call for assistance by specific leaders, organizations and others affected by the international NCI fraud: the Professional Review, the Healing the Body summary-summons, and the Integrity Petition.
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