Last Thursday the John Ensign (US Senator) scandal triggered a post about the hypocrisy kids see these days in so-called leaders; not their lies, but their over the top do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do attitudes and actions.
In response, Dan Erwin commented that rather than standards, i.e., set rules, he preferred to teach his kids about covenants, because “Legalism, in all its forms, is really death-giving stuff. I go back to covenant…covenants get renegotiated.”
By definition, a covenant is “an agreement, usually formal, between two or more persons to do or not do something specified.”
But Ensign’s hypocrisy was pushed off the hot seat by the same …read more

The sound you heard a few weeks ago was the largest Ponzi scheme in history crashing down on the heads of investors around the world.
As with the banks and auto companies there were plenty of warning signs, but people ignored or rationalized them—trust does funny things to usually savvy people.
But who is Bernard L. Madoff, other than being a crook? What’s he like? Why was he so trusted?
I found this video, which gave me a much better understanding of why people gave him their money—he seems far more of a cuddly, smart, financial grandpa than the crook who’s been in …read more