A steady place to check your bearings against, when nothing else is.
Available November 25 in paperback, hardcover, and eBook.
Character grows one step at a time. The book is where it starts, and these five steps take you from reading about character to living it.
Read → Study → Recognize → Share → Live It
The book lays out the idea at the heart of everything: morality builds character, character builds trust, and when that foundation erodes, trust goes with it.
The study guide helps you apply the book, chapter by chapter. Work through it at your own pace, or with a group over thirteen weeks.
Look back on the moments when character became visible, and learn to spot them as they happen, in someone you watch or in something you do, for better or worse.
The Room is where you can give a true account of your moments, in your own words, so they can reach someone who needs them.
Character is caught, not taught. Do your best and show your best, so the people around you can see what character looks like.
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
Explore the book more deeply, on your own or with a group, and learn to notice the moments that shaped your own character.
Explore Study Guides & Group Resources →One person can witness or live only so many moments. The Room is where yours can be shared.
About the Room →
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.
Someone handed you this. Who will you hand it to?
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