Kerry Ingram was born and raised in Littleton, Colorado, and has spent his life paying close attention. As an engineer, he worked at the intersection of computing and industry from the earliest days of personal computers through a career in IT security. He is a husband, father and grandfather of six, and a man of deep and active faith. He hikes, builds and photographs the Colorado mountains he calls home, including the cover image of Morality Lost. This is his first book.
Why I wrote this
My father never gave a speech about morality. He just lived it, and it transferred: to me, then through me to my kids, and now to my grandchildren. That's the thing the book itself names: character isn't taught. It's caught. It worked for me because I happened to be standing close enough to a man like that, for long enough.
But fewer people have that anymore. The generation in the middle is unmoored, and the thing that used to pass quietly, by proximity, isn't reaching people the way it reached me.
So this book is my attempt to do on purpose, in writing, what my father did without trying, just by standing next to me, and what someone else's grandmother, or coach, or neighbor did for them, without either of us ever calling it a lesson.
I'm not trying to start a movement. My father wasn't a movement. He was one man who decided how he was going to live. I'm just trying to be, for people I'll never meet, what he was for me.
How one book became more
This book has been a journey for me in many, many ways. It was a gift to help me with my own walk. When I wrote it, I had no idea how far it would go.
The book is my attempt to convey my moments, to pass those experiences on to others. I soon realized it shouldn't stop with my own moments. That is why there is a study guide, to help readers explore the book and recognize their own moments, and the Room, where people can share them.
What I hope you take away
I can't be in the room with everyone the way my father was in the room with me. My hope is that this book is something you can pick up, be changed by, the way people are changed by being near someone steady, and pass along to someone else in turn.
Without a single doubt, I had a lot of help getting here. So, thanks to all.
— Kerry Ingram
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