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Alaric Mark Lewis
Oct 237 min read
On David Wayne Lewis and the imagination of the Incarnation
Last night I dreamt of my brother David, a rare appearance of someone whose presence in my life was, for many years, tangential. I can...
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Alaric Mark Lewis
Sep 304 min read
On a basset hound named Cleopatra and care for creation
The first family dog I can remember was a basset hound by the name of Cleopatra. Judging from stories and photos, Cleopatra had been a...
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Alaric Mark Lewis
Apr 186 min read
On a smiling captain and knowing how to love
On the 11th of November 2014, I was on a flight to Málaga for a formal visit to a church which had offered me a position there. Just...
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Alaric Mark Lewis
Jul 21, 20235 min read
On freethinking spinsters and the 50th anniversary of the passing of Shirley Jean Lewis
On May the 11th 1972 my parents hosted an impromptu gathering. My brother David had turned nine two days before and there was a little...
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Alaric Mark Lewis
Feb 7, 20234 min read
On Pride and Joy: A letter to George Edward Lewis (1935-2023)
Dear Dad, On Thursday, the 8th of May, 1975 – four days after my 9th birthday – I was beaten up at recess by a horrible bully. I remember...
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Alaric Mark Lewis
Mar 25, 20223 min read
On American Graffiti, hope and the Annunciation
When I was a child growing up in America in the 1970s there was a romanticism about the 1950s and early 60s that was all over popular...
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Alaric Mark Lewis
Dec 29, 20213 min read
On confusing days and tangled lights
I've just set out our recycling to be taken away. I never know the best time to do this: Do I put it out the night before and risk a...
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Alaric Mark Lewis
Sep 17, 20214 min read
On collared doves and Hildegard of Bingen
Quite recently I have noticed two birds that have been visiting my balcony with increasing regularity. At first I thought they were...
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Alaric Mark Lewis
Aug 6, 20215 min read
On a butter cow and the Transfiguration
For a couple of summers when I was in college I worked at a small diocesan Catholic newspaper. I accepted the job thinking it would be my...
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Alaric Mark Lewis
Jun 4, 20214 min read
On Tobit, bird poo, and silliness
A couple of years ago I was locking up at St George Tombland when a gentleman shouted “Wait a second!” from the street. I thought there...
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Alaric Mark Lewis
May 14, 20216 min read
On a dowager baroness and a bargain-bin saint
In March of 2013 I was locking the church when I sensed that someone was right behind me. I turned around and, indeed, standing so near I...
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Alaric Mark Lewis
Apr 21, 20213 min read
On a funeral choir and a German nun
In a parish where I served as a deacon there was a funeral choir, a group of elderly volunteers who provided the music for every single...
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Alaric Mark Lewis
Mar 3, 20214 min read
On Mr. Park Bench, Mr. Al Capone, and a balm in Gilead
Quite frequently when I'm heading over to church to pray morning prayer, I encounter a guy sitting on a bench who is waiting for a mate...
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Alaric Mark Lewis
Feb 24, 20214 min read
On meteorites, MI6, and Viktor from Chelyabinsk
Last week I received a message on this very website from someone named Viktor who lives in Chelyabinsk. At first I thought some friend...
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Alaric Mark Lewis
Feb 19, 20215 min read
On Mrs. Mingott, the perfect paragraph, and a hat
One day last week I bundled up and went to sit in a frightfully cold St George Colegate Church to spend some time reflecting on the...
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Alaric Mark Lewis
Jan 8, 20214 min read
On life, liberty, happiness, and love
Just a few miles outside of Charlottesville, Virginia sits Monticello, the plantation of Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the...
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Alaric Mark Lewis
Dec 18, 20206 min read
On an eccentric monk, a Christmas ornament, and O Adonai
I don't think I've ever lived in a place more filled with more eccentrics than Rome. I know there are eccentrics everywhere, of course,...
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Alaric Mark Lewis
Oct 23, 20204 min read
On Timothy Q. Mouse and Saint Paul
In April of 1972, my parents went to see Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather. I was five years old (nearly six, I would have said was an...
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Alaric Mark Lewis
Oct 2, 20204 min read
On golf and guardian angels
Back in 1982 I was at golf practice when, quite suddenly, the blue skies all around us began to take on a more sinister colour - a...
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Alaric Mark Lewis
Sep 26, 202013 min read
On imaginary friends waiting at the airport
The woman stood scanning the faces of the people walking out of the door for international arrivals. Upon arriving there herself she had...
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