A steady place to check your bearings against, when nothing else is.
Available November 25 in paperback, hardcover, and eBook.
Morality Lost argues that America's fractured trust — in institutions, in each other, in the truth itself — traces back to one missing ingredient: a shared moral foundation.
I learned character from my father. He never gave a speech about morality; he just lived it, and it transferred. But fewer people have that anymore. The sheriff's gone. The soda fountain's gone.
So this book is my attempt to do on purpose, at a distance, in writing, what my father did without trying.
In institutions, in each other, in the truth itself — and it all traces back to a missing shared moral foundation.
We learn it from the people we watch: a sheriff whose word didn't move, a mason who'd “let it rain.”
The fix isn't a law or a policy. It's a change inside each of us, one relationship at a time.
He held it together just long enough to turn his head toward his mother — and the moment he saw her face, he fell apart completely. … That baby boy in San Francisco didn't need a policy or a platform. He needed his mother's face. In the end, so do the rest of us.— from Morality Lost, Chapter 7
“You drill right to the greatest concerns, fears and realities of raising kids in a world where all lines are blurred and truth, but especially biblical truth, is nearly impossible to decipher through the noise of the surrounding world views.”— Sean and Janet W., friends of the author
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Retired engineer and grandfather of six Kerry Ingram spent a career inside complex systems, learning to notice the small failure before it becomes a large one. Morality Lost turns that same instinct on a quieter kind of breakdown.
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