Global Integrity Day--9 June 2025
Theme: Empowering People to Defeat Corruption
Developing Resilience, Virtues, and Skills
“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
Theme: Empowering People to Defeat Corruption
Developing Resilience, Virtues, and Skills
“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 as we continue into our seventh year of Into Integrity,
taking action and sharing resources to support integrity.
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Into Integrity Update
Read the full Update on the Into Integrity weblog
Read the full Update on the Into Integrity weblog
Overview
Into Integrity FAST, involving 40 days of food fasting and hunger striking, featuring special podcasts and blogposts, was launched June through December 2019. We continue FAST via the ongoing call for the assistance and integrity of specific Christian organizations, leaders, and people affected by the international Nordic Capital investment KB (NCI) fraud: verifiably disclose via internal and independent reviews, make right the wrongful dismissals, and do what is “good, right, and true before the Lord your God" (2 Chronicles 31:20).
We encourage you read the Into Integrity weblog to review why it is so important for the moral health and reputation of the Church-Mission Community to resolutely persevere in the FAST call. We also encourage you to listen to the Into Integrity podcasts, such as: Confronting Corruption in Our Midst: Principles for Courage, Integrity, and Action and Awaken the Good--A Personal Exhortation to Specific Leaders. There is more information about Into Integrity below towards the end.
Thank you for your encouragement, support, and prayers,
Kelly and Michèle O'Donnell
Live in integrity--Unite for integrity
prointegritynet@gmail.com
Special News!
Global Integrity Day--9 June 2025
Theme: Empowering People to Defeat Corruption
Developing Resilience, Virtues, and Skills
In this Update (#29) we feature this year's Global Integrity Day-9 June including some of the featured resources on the GID website along with a special Into Integrity podcast.
"The only thing necessary for corruption to flourish
is to do nothing about it—or to do some non-efficacious and non-resolute 'thing'
[even rationalizing our motives and (non)actions as being 'noble and necessary']
and then move on, often with our consciences placated and our livelihoods protected."
Loving Truth and Peace: A Case Study (2013)
1. GID Overview
“Global Integrity Day (GID) is a positive day, launched on 9 June 2020, to reflect, teach, and collaborate on ways to integrate integrity in all we do throughout the entire year. GID is a strategic day to promote a) cultivating lifestyles, cultures, and systems of integrity from the individual through the international levels; b) joining together to understand and address the causes and consequences of corruption in its many forms; and c) working towards just and equitable societies marked with wellbeing for all people and for the planet.
GID is [also] a solemn day to consider our ways: if we are lying and/or stealing in any way big or small, then we need to stop it. If we need to right a wrong we have done, then do so. If we need to prudently confront wrongdoing, preferably in solidarity with colleagues for mutual support and greater impact, then do so." (quote from the GID website)
2. Two recent examples of the many resources on the GID website are:
--Corruption Perception Index 2024 (CPI), Transparency International (published 11 February 2025). See the summary CPI 2024: Highlights and Insights.
--Developing Character Strengths–Being the Leaders Our World Needs, Global Integration Update (March 2023). See the research on Seven Strategies for Character Development.
3. Making the most of the GID resources
Review some of the featured materials highlighted in this Update and featured on the GID website--including doing so interactively with friends and colleagues.
--List some practical applications for you/your settings.
--Was there anything you thought to be controversial or not helpful?
--List a few things that you would like to explore more.
--What did you find the most interesting or helpful?
We want to especially invite you to affirm someone you know (or know of) who is acting with integrity. Use GID as a special occasion to encourage them--it can be tough and risky to do what is right!
Participate in GID and spread the word! See the GID website for ideas about how to participate. Make every day an integrity day!
4. Into Integrity--A podcast to support the GID 2025 theme
Confronting Corruption in Our Midst--Principles for Courage, Integrity, and Action. This is one on 14 special podcasts from Into Integrity and we share it to to support this year's GID.
"Have you ever had to confront a specific matter of corruption? Not just someone or some organization 'way out there somewhere.' But something close to home, involving your friends, colleagues, and your own church or organization. And having to do so over a long period of time—maybe in the midst of opposition, discrediting, slanted half-truths, and excuses for not having to do anything. In today’s podcast, we’ll look into these important matters...Corruption is closer to home than you might think. And so is rationalizing it in our midst, including in ourselves.. (quote from the Into Integrity website)
5. Defining Integrity and Corruption (adapted from Global Integrity Day-9 June)
Integrity is moral wholeness—living consistently in moral wholeness—with honesty, humility and all the virtues--and with an awareness of one’s potential to deceive and harm oneself and others. Integrity needs external moral referents--standards of virtue with accountability--and not simply positive self-appraisals--in order to safeguard us all from both blind and willful hypocrisy.
Global integrity is living consistently in moral wholeness at all levels--individual, interpersonal, institutional, and international; across sectors and settings; local through global; the systemic and structural.
Corruption is moral rottenness, the opposite of integrity--the distortion, perversion, and deterioration of moral goodness, resulting in the abuse and exploitation of people and the planet. It is integroty. 'If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, then how great is your darkness!" (Matthew 6:23)
Note that the above definitions of integrity and corruption open the door wide to the crucial discussion and clarification of "external moral referents" and "standards of virtue and accountability" as well as the process and accuracy of one's moral perceptions of self and others.
Going Further 
This petition is an ongoing, international call for the organizations (current and past staff, leaders, board members, etc.) and people affected by the Nordic Capital Investment KB (NCI) fraud to share and help uncover the truth—to transparently and verifiably disclose.
"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
Global Integrity Day--9 June 2025
Theme: Empowering People to Defeat Corruption
Developing Resilience, Virtues, and Skills
In this Update (#29) we feature this year's Global Integrity Day-9 June including some of the featured resources on the GID website along with a special Into Integrity podcast.
"The only thing necessary for corruption to flourish
is to do nothing about it—or to do some non-efficacious and non-resolute 'thing'
[even rationalizing our motives and (non)actions as being 'noble and necessary']
and then move on, often with our consciences placated and our livelihoods protected."
Loving Truth and Peace: A Case Study (2013)
1. GID Overview
“Global Integrity Day (GID) is a positive day, launched on 9 June 2020, to reflect, teach, and collaborate on ways to integrate integrity in all we do throughout the entire year. GID is a strategic day to promote a) cultivating lifestyles, cultures, and systems of integrity from the individual through the international levels; b) joining together to understand and address the causes and consequences of corruption in its many forms; and c) working towards just and equitable societies marked with wellbeing for all people and for the planet.
GID is [also] a solemn day to consider our ways: if we are lying and/or stealing in any way big or small, then we need to stop it. If we need to right a wrong we have done, then do so. If we need to prudently confront wrongdoing, preferably in solidarity with colleagues for mutual support and greater impact, then do so." (quote from the GID website)
2. Two recent examples of the many resources on the GID website are:
--Corruption Perception Index 2024 (CPI), Transparency International (published 11 February 2025). See the summary CPI 2024: Highlights and Insights.
--Developing Character Strengths–Being the Leaders Our World Needs, Global Integration Update (March 2023). See the research on Seven Strategies for Character Development.
3. Making the most of the GID resources
Review some of the featured materials highlighted in this Update and featured on the GID website--including doing so interactively with friends and colleagues.
--List some practical applications for you/your settings.
--Was there anything you thought to be controversial or not helpful?
--List a few things that you would like to explore more.
--What did you find the most interesting or helpful?
We want to especially invite you to affirm someone you know (or know of) who is acting with integrity. Use GID as a special occasion to encourage them--it can be tough and risky to do what is right!
Participate in GID and spread the word! See the GID website for ideas about how to participate. Make every day an integrity day!
4. Into Integrity--A podcast to support the GID 2025 theme
Confronting Corruption in Our Midst--Principles for Courage, Integrity, and Action. This is one on 14 special podcasts from Into Integrity and we share it to to support this year's GID.
"Have you ever had to confront a specific matter of corruption? Not just someone or some organization 'way out there somewhere.' But something close to home, involving your friends, colleagues, and your own church or organization. And having to do so over a long period of time—maybe in the midst of opposition, discrediting, slanted half-truths, and excuses for not having to do anything. In today’s podcast, we’ll look into these important matters...Corruption is closer to home than you might think. And so is rationalizing it in our midst, including in ourselves.. (quote from the Into Integrity website)
5. Defining Integrity and Corruption (adapted from Global Integrity Day-9 June)
Integrity is moral wholeness—living consistently in moral wholeness—with honesty, humility and all the virtues--and with an awareness of one’s potential to deceive and harm oneself and others. Integrity needs external moral referents--standards of virtue with accountability--and not simply positive self-appraisals--in order to safeguard us all from both blind and willful hypocrisy.
Global integrity is living consistently in moral wholeness at all levels--individual, interpersonal, institutional, and international; across sectors and settings; local through global; the systemic and structural.
Corruption is moral rottenness, the opposite of integrity--the distortion, perversion, and deterioration of moral goodness, resulting in the abuse and exploitation of people and the planet. It is integroty. 'If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, then how great is your darkness!" (Matthew 6:23)
Note that the above definitions of integrity and corruption open the door wide to the crucial discussion and clarification of "external moral referents" and "standards of virtue and accountability" as well as the process and accuracy of one's moral perceptions of self and others.
Into Integrity
Make every day an integrity day!
Make every day an integrity day!
"Corruption is criminal, immoral and the ultimate betrayal of public trust.….We must hold leaders to account….A vibrant civic space and open access to information are essential. And we must protect the rights and recognize the courage of whistle-blowers who expose wrongdoing….As an age-old plague takes on new forms, let us combat it with new heights of resolve.” UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, Statement on corruption (15 October 2020).
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)
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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.
Going Further
See the Into Integrity weblog-updates for more background information including:
--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 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 weblogs focusing on a) new resources for integrity and anti-corruption 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 (Part Two of every weblog entry), and the Integrity Petition (see below).
This petition is an ongoing, international call for the organizations (current and past staff, leaders, board members, etc.) and people affected by the Nordic Capital Investment KB (NCI) fraud to share and help uncover the truth—to transparently and verifiably disclose.
There must be zero tolerance for corruption and its cover ups, complicity, and cowardice.
Act with integrity--live in integrity. Read it, sign it, share it. Thank you!
"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
