Doing the Right Thing: Making Moral Choices in a World Full of Options by Scott B. Rae is a timely book dedicated to the memory of Chuck Colson, who has been at the forefront of the battle against the moral relativism that saps the vital energy of our culture. The book offers powerful insights to make the correct and right moral choices, and do the needful in a culture that had been ravaged by moral decay.

Doing the Right Thing is intended to be a companion book to the film series by the same name produced by Chuck Colson. Containing six short chapters, the first, “We’re in an Ethical Mess!” is an attempt to answer the question, how did we get into this ethical mess? The second chapter “Is There a Moral Law We Can Know?” brings out the foundational ideas of the book. The third chapter “If We Know What’s Right, Can We Do It?” is an important question which needs an answer. The fourth chapter “What Does It Mean To Be Human?” takes a look at ethics in medicine and health. And the fifth and sixth chapters “Ethics in the Marketplace” and “Ethics in Public Life” deal with the subjects as their titles suggest.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon the world, says the French existentialist philosopher Albert Camus. From a Christian worldview, the motive for living a good life has more depth, to be worthy of the calling to which we have been called, to be worthy of God, and to be worthy of the ultimate sacrifice that Christ made on the cross. ( )