They were pushed, with some courtesy shown in the light or token nature of the push, through a hatch into unwindowed darkness where a candle set on a black stone showed walls of ill-hewn blocks […]

When we totalled the takings, we always got a different figure.

a misunderstood message

One of these practices is ethics—the disciplined reflection on Christian moral life, Lutheranly construed. Lutheran ethics is critical and constructive reflection on Christian moral practice. As such it is both descriptive and normative.