Confronting Corruption in Our Midst!
Principles for Courage, Integrity, and Action
Principles for Courage, Integrity, and Action
Join together to support the Into Integrity FAST
Part Two: 6-26 December 2019
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#MyOrganizationToo #CMCtoo #HealUsTooPart Two: 6-26 December 2019
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Stand up--Speak out--Live in integrity
“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
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!
We have just done the third podcast in Part Two of the Into Integrity FAST (see purpose statement at end). The theme is Confronting Corruption in Our Midst: Principles for Courage, Integrity, and Action. You can access the podcast HERE. You can read the transcript HERE.
Michèle begins by exploring some reasons and rationalizations for NOT dealing with corruption in our midst. Sadly, it can be all too easy to excuse the complacency and complicity and indeed the coverups and cowardice that prop up not just corrupt acts, but a whole culture of corruption.
She then shares some principles for fighting corruption based primarily on Rachel Denhollander’s recent interviews with MinistryWatch and Christianity Today as well as our own experiences confronting corruption (15 Principles for Fighting Corruption). We note that these principles are also relevant to situations of corruption in churches, mission agencies, and other organizations, where whistleblowers and victims are usually vilified and verifiable accountability via independent reviews is rare. (Recall that Rachel was one of the principle persons confronting sexual abuse in the USA gymnastics team. She is also actively confronting sexual abuse in the USA church.)
--9 December 2019: International Anti-Corruption Day. Uniting to raise awareness of corruption, including preventing and combating it. We are also emphasizing integrity at all levels, individual through international.
--20 December 2019: International Human Solidarity Day. Uniting to promote wellbeing for all, including eradicating poverty in all its forms. We are also emphasizing moral health at all levels, individual through international.
Thank you for your prayers, encouragement, and support.
Kelly and Michèle
prointegritynet@gmail.com
We have just done the third podcast in Part Two of the Into Integrity FAST (see purpose statement at end). The theme is Confronting Corruption in Our Midst: Principles for Courage, Integrity, and Action. You can access the podcast HERE. You can read the transcript HERE.
Michèle begins by exploring some reasons and rationalizations for NOT dealing with corruption in our midst. Sadly, it can be all too easy to excuse the complacency and complicity and indeed the coverups and cowardice that prop up not just corrupt acts, but a whole culture of corruption.
She then shares some principles for fighting corruption based primarily on Rachel Denhollander’s recent interviews with MinistryWatch and Christianity Today as well as our own experiences confronting corruption (15 Principles for Fighting Corruption). We note that these principles are also relevant to situations of corruption in churches, mission agencies, and other organizations, where whistleblowers and victims are usually vilified and verifiable accountability via independent reviews is rare. (Recall that Rachel was one of the principle persons confronting sexual abuse in the USA gymnastics team. She is also actively confronting sexual abuse in the USA church.)
The Into Integrity FAST is part of the larger, international effort to confront corruption:
“Corruption begets more corruption and fosters a corrosive culture of impunity.” Every year $1 trillion is paid in bribes while an estimated $2.6 trillion are stolen annually through corruption – a sum equivalent to more than 5 per cent of the global GDP…. “I call on leaders everywhere to listen, to nurture a culture of integrity and to empower citizens to do their part at the grass roots.” (quotes from UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and International Anti-corruption Day)
You Are Invited
Join together with us and people around the world during Part Two of the Into Integrity FAST (6-26 December 2019). Specifically, please join with us in fasting and/or prayer on either or both of these two important days:--9 December 2019: International Anti-Corruption Day. Uniting to raise awareness of corruption, including preventing and combating it. We are also emphasizing integrity at all levels, individual through international.
--20 December 2019: International Human Solidarity Day. Uniting to promote wellbeing for all, including eradicating poverty in all its forms. We are also emphasizing moral health at all levels, individual through international.
Join together in solidarity!
We encourage you to focus (fasting and/or praying) on an area of integrity/moral health that is important for you. And of course focus on the specific NCI fraud and dismissals that continue to be publicly challenged over the past 12 years. You are welcome to contact us and share what you are doing.
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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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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
Thank you for your prayers, encouragement, and support.
Stand up. Speak out. Live in integrity.
Please spread the word.
Kelly and Michèle
prointegritynet@gmail.com
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Going Further
Be sure to check out these relevant items too:
--the seven podcasts and seven blogposts that Kelly did in Part One of FAST in June 2019
--the seven podcasts and seven blogposts that Kelly did in Part One of FAST in June 2019
--the comments of several colleagues who have expressed their strong support for us and the Into Integrity FAST’s calls for disclosures, integrity, and righting the wrongful dismissals (see the September Into Integrity weblog entry)
--the latest PETRA People weblog (December 2019) includes 15 principles for confronting corruption; and three ongoing efforts to confront corruption and the international NCI et al fraud: the Professional Review, the Healing the Body summary-summons, and the Integrity Petition.
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Shine the Light-Together!
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The purpose of the Into Integrity FAST 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. Join with us in 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.
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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.
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