by Robert Parham | Jul 15, 2005 | Opinion
Moral relativism and indifference surface with a pointed clarity in Southern Baptist life in the case of Bernie Ebbers, a member of Easthaven Baptist Church, outside of Jackson, Miss. Ebbers, the 63-year-old former CEO of Worldcom, a telecommunication giant, was...
by Robert Parham | Aug 16, 2002 | Opinion
Worldcom’s founder and former CEO, Bernie Ebbers, began every board meeting with a public prayer. “Let’s open with a word of prayer,” he said at the start of a 1999 meeting. “Our Father, we come to you today to thank you for these people...
by Robert Parham | Aug 2, 2002 | Opinion
CEOs, politicians and pundits are scrambling to explain the ethical collapse of big business. They blame compromised auditors, dishonest executives, weak board directors and lax law enforcement officers. Charles Colson blamed secularism, especially the fountainhead of...
by Robert Parham | Jul 22, 2002 | Opinion
Fortune magazine reported that Bernie Ebbers, the founder and former CEO of Worldcom, the nation’s second-largest long-distance corporation, owes the company $408 million in loans lent to him by the board of directors when he was chairman of the board....
by Robert Parham | Jul 19, 2002 | Opinion
A number of months ago, Jim Wallis, editor in chief of Sojourners magazine, wrote a column asking, “Where Do Enron Execs Go to Church?” While Wallis did not specifically answer his rhetorical question, he bluntly connected the violation of biblical ethics...