Sightings Articles
Seven Suggestions and Three Commandments? — Lawrence Webb
In the wake of the Situation Ethics debate sparked by Joseph Fletcher in the late 1960s, the defensive cry often heard regarding the Decalogue was “They’re not the Ten Suggestions; they’re the Ten Commandments.” Absolutism versus relativism (or Fletc...
August 28, 2003
Tintern Abbey -- Lawrence Webb
There's a majesty about the huge church in the little Welsh village in the Wye Valley. The complex of buildings adjoining the church once housed an order of contemplative monks who spent much of each day in silence. Everything about Tintern Abbey ...
December 5, 2002
Revisiting Independence Day, 1971 -- Lawrence Webb
I recently rediscovered notes I had scribbled in church on a bulletin dated "Independence Day, 1971." "Going to church on Independence Day proved to be a strange experience. In the service which included patriotic songs and the pledge of allegian...