What might best define The American Institute of Ethics?

 It has become quite apparent that many of the systems and institutions that we have treasured and followed so faithfully have failed in recent times. Why is this? It would seem that the following reflection by Richard Rohr the Franciscan writer and speaker it’s the nail on the head. Our society has been directed by men from almost all time. In recent years, women have become much more involved including leadership roles. Why is it not working any better? Most women as they assume leadership have tended to act just like the men and use the same tactics and tools that men have used. They need to be just who they are – Women! We need this change and Ref. Rohr says it most beautifully.

          SUBERTING THE HONOR/SHAME SYSTER

          Question: Who am I – really?

          “The male psyche is normally fragile and insecure because it is based on overwhelmingly external and transitory criteria a game which almost all men eventually lose. The poor male has to look good and he has to defend the honor of his bank account, his family, his race, his country, but all in reference to himself! His question is not allowed to be ‘Who am I – really?’, but only ‘How do I look?’          

This is precisely the opposite path from any authentic spirituality. Thus it was males who alone needed ‘initiation’ in most indigenous cultures, and it was males like Jesus Christ and the other great religious figures of all time, who walked in the exact opposite direction