Where Was God at Enron?
From the belly of the corporate beast, an exile lands on the shores of divinity school by Carole Bass – January 23, 2003 Hartford Advocate Jim Alexander knew that Enron was headed for a “rat hole” in 1995. “Maybe if I had been more of a trooper, then maybe people wouldn’t have lost a lot of money.” The Bible is full of reluctant prophets. Not Chicken Little-style fortune-tellers but truth-tellers, mouthpieces for the Almighty, drafted to confront corrupt leaders and feckless followers. Their message: Straighten up fast or meet certain doom. Jim Alexander doesn’t cast himself as a prophet. Reluctant, yes. He’d rather not, he says, be talking about Enron — how he quit in 1995, months after warning CEO Ken Lay that the company was headed for a “rat hole.” He’d rather not be giving a New Haven lecture series called “Where was God in Enron?” He’d rather curl up in an armchair in his $660,000 East Rock home, learning ancient Hebrew and Greek and poring over the Bible as a Yale Divinity Scho
