The Center for Christian Ethics
The Center for Christian Ethics was planned in 1988, named in 1989, chartered as a non-profit corporation with the office of the Texas Secretary of State on June 14, 1990, and granted 501(c) (3) standing by the Internal Revenue Service on June 17, 1991.
The primary objectives of the Center are important and attainable.
- Clarify communicate, cultivate, and champion those basic ethical values without which neither the churches nor civilization itself could survive: wisdom, courage, temperance, justice, righteousness, peace, fuith, hope, love, and freedom.
- Affect public policy issues which currently have an important but neglected ethics dimension.
- Produce a Christian ethics publication to help those in a position to work for personal and public morality.
- Sponsor leadership symposiums and colloquiurns in order to build a camaraderie among leaders of like mind and heart who will in turn develop ethical initiatives in support of personal and pubic morality in the churches and in society at large.
- Foster the preparation and distribution of substantive Christian ethics materials not being produced by others.
- Service by personal consultation and by development of innovative utilization of modern technologies those ethics offices, agencies, and centers, both in the Untied States and internationally, where such support services are needed and wanted.
The Center for Christian Ethics is a serious step in the direction of stopping toda/s moral drift and of supporting improvement in the ethical environment of our churches, our society, our nation, and our world. The Center for Christian Ethics cannot do everything that is needed; but it can do something important.
The Trustees of the Center for Christian Ethics believe the Center is in a position to be a unique and able supporter of the cause of Christian social ethics.
