Character-in-Action® is a name we assigned our line of character books. We assigned that name because good character requires character-in-action. Until we have action, we do not have character.
You may tell me, “That man is a man of character,” but until I see him in action, exercising character, I cannot know that. The man of […]
During this season of holidays, I’d like to suggest a character experiment. How many children can you catch showing respect to older people?
Previous generations talked frequently about respect for elders, but our modern society, hating to impose any kind of boundaries on young people, does little talking or teaching along these lines. Perhaps it is […]
In the United States, the day after Thanksgiving is officially the first of the Christmas shopping season. More recently, we hear it called a holiday shopping season, as we strive to squeeze one another into a politically correct mold. Whatever year-end holiday one celebrates, however, the shopping season has begun. We have embarked on that […]
Character-in-Action shows forgiveness to those who have wronged us in some way, and many of us are willing to forgive to a point. I wonder, though, how many of us are ready to exercise the kind of forgiveness shown in this story.
Everyone who is old enough to follow the news is aware that the Israelis […]
Happy Thanksgiving Day. I wonder what it means to you. I wonder what is on your list of things for which you are thankful. I wonder to whom you are thankful. At the moment, three little house finches perch on the feeder just outside my office window. They seem very thankful for the thistle seed […]
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day in the United States, and seeking good news for which we could be thankful, I ran across a story of a young British girl who exercised responsibility – and made approximately 100 people, plus their friends and families, extremely thankful. It happened nearly a year ago, but her story surfaced again […]
Since this Thursday is Thanksgiving Day in our country, I’ve been actively looking for ways in which citizens’ character in action provides cause for thanksgiving. I’ve been hunting character-in-action to show that society has not yet spun totally into decadence.
One story that surfaced this past weekend is cause for both thanksgiving and praise. It is […]
Thursday, November 24 is Thanksgiving Day here in the United States. Character in action in many lives provides a cornucopia of reasons for thanksgiving.
Take, for example, the victims of hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma. Add to their number the victims of tornadoes in the Midwest and floods in the Northeast. Factor in victims of wildfires […]
This is what President Bush said when nominating Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. What did he mean? What do any of us mean when we say that a certain individual is a man of character or a woman of character? Better questions might be, “How does the listener or reader interpret that phrase when […]
President Jacques Chirac said, this week, that extended violence in France is the sign of a “profound malaise” among his country’s troubled youth.
Clicking over to the “Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary” to be sure I was on the same page as the French president, I found two possibilities for “malaise.” The first referred to illness, which I […]