Monthly Character Journal by HomeLife Ministries
Values Parenting by Linda and Richard Eyre
Beacons of Character by Truelight Academy
Christ's Ideals for Living by
O.C. Tanner
Preface and table of contents
Excerpt from the
Teacher's Manual
I am convinced that if we make and
keep resolutions in these four areas, we will have a
happier and more successful new year and every year for the
rest of our lives: Intellectually (in wisdom and
knowledge); Physically (in stature); Socially (in favor
with man); Spiritually (in favor with God). ~~Joe J.
Christensen~~
Teaching the Virtues
Making Ethical Decisions: An online book from the Josephson Institute of Ethics
Inspiring students to stand strong amid torrent of temptation by Henry B. Eyring
The Charted Course of the Church in Education by J. Reuben Clark, Jr.
Education: Moving Toward and Under the Law of Consecration by Alvin R. Dyer
The Search for Moral Harmony by Neil J. Flinders
The Educational Dilemma: Public Schools, Private Schools, or Home Schools by Jack Monnett
Commentary on Teaching the Virtues
Our Moral Environment by Boyd K. Packer
The Family: A Proclamation to the World
August 8, 1938: [Our children] fully sense the hollowness of teachings which would make the Gospel plan a mere system of ethics, they know that Christ’s teachings are in the highest degree ethical, but they also know they are more than this. They will see that ethics relate primarily to the doings of this life, and that to make of the Gospel a mere system of ethics is to confess a lack of faith, if not a disbelief, in the hereafter. They know that the Gospel teachings not only touch this life, but the life that is to come, with its salvation and exaltation as the final goal.
[Our children] hunger and thirst, as did their fathers before them, for a testimony of the things of the spirit and of the hereafter, and knowing that you cannot rationalize eternity; they seek faith, and the knowledge which follows faith. They sense by the spirit they have, that the testimony they seek is engendered and nurtured by the testimony of others, and that to gain this testimony which they seek for, one living, burning, honest testimony of a righteous God-fearing man that Jesus is the Christ is worth a thousand books and lectures aimed at debasing the Gospel to a system of ethics or seeking to rationalize infinity."
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Read an online text by Ken Blanchard and Norman Vincent Peale.
Chapter 1 - Ethics and the Gospel
Chapter 2 - Relativism - Satan's Old Plan
Chapter 3 - Faith - the Principle of Action and Power for Ethical Decision Making
Chapter 4 - The Knowledge Base for Ethical Behavior
Chapter 5 - Making Our Course in Life Agreeable to God - Becoming Ethical
Chapter 6 - A Dilemma Resolution Procedure
Chapter 7 - Ethical Leadership - Making the Public Life Consistent with the Private Life
Chapter 8 - Competition Versus Service in Ethical Decision Making
Selected Readings:
- "AIMS of a BYU Education"
- Jeffery Holland - "A School in Zion"
- President Gordon B. Hinckley - "Stand Up for Truth"
- Rushworth Kidder - "There's Only Ethics"
- Rushworth Kidder - "The Ethics of Right versus Right"
- William LeMessurier - "The 59-Story Crisis"
Links in this table are from Religion 491/2, Engineering Ethics, taught by Professor Val Hawks.
Family Prayer
It is a call that other prophets have consistently sounded throughout the history of the Church. Following the sorrow and tragedy of World War I, for example, President Heber J. Grant shared his feelings about family prayer: "I am convinced that one of the greatest things that can come into any home to cause the boys and girls in that home to grow up in a love of God, and in a love of the gospel of Jesus Christ, is to have family prayer... I believe that there are very few that go astray, that very few lose their faith, who have once had a knowledge of the gospel, and who never neglect their prayers in their families, and their secret supplications to God."