Alaric Mark Lewis
On my imaginary friend Diana and what we need
Many years ago – I actually can tell you it was March of 1985, to be precise – I got into a rather heated discussion about Christianity...
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Alaric Mark Lewis
Jul 8, 20204 min read
On Vito Corleone, complexity, and holiness
Earlier this year – although it seems like a lifetime ago now – I was part of a panel of four priests talking about various aspects of...
Alaric Mark Lewis
Jun 26, 20203 min read
On Gunsmoke and echoes
Gunsmoke was an American television series that was on for twenty years and many more years after on syndication. It was set in the...
Alaric Mark Lewis
Jun 23, 20205 min read
On "He had it coming" and a tent stake in the head
"I'm sure he had it coming." I'm with an Italian tour group in Budapest, and we're at the Museum of Fine Arts standing before the 1620...
Alaric Mark Lewis
Jun 18, 20204 min read
On a dachshund named Linus, a wolf, and a blind monk named Hervé
My dog Linus is fond of sitting in the windows that look out over the river and letting the people who have the audacity to walk on the...
Alaric Mark Lewis
Jun 16, 20205 min read
On peanut allergies and doubt
In the summer of 2004, I spent three months in a village called Rabanal del Camino in northwest Spain. Now Wikipedia tells me that the...
Alaric Mark Lewis
Jun 12, 20204 min read
On Barnabas, Caitlyn, Bowie, and heroes
1976 was an amazing year to be a kid growing up in the United States. It was that year, of course that my country celebrated two-hundred...
Alaric Mark Lewis
Jun 10, 20206 min read
On Monty Hall and getting to the point
More than twenty years ago I was asked to give a week-long retreat to some nuns in rural Kentucky. One of the nuns, Sister Joan, a most...
Alaric Mark Lewis
Jun 9, 20205 min read
On Martha, Mary, Jackson Devereaux, and Sally
I first met Jackson Devereaux more than thirty years ago, when I was taking an interterm course at the Southern Baptist Theological...
Alaric Mark Lewis
Jun 5, 20204 min read
On asking the right questions
Growing up, my grandparents had a second home on Patterson Bay, a sleepy little village (if you could even call it that) whose...
Alaric Mark Lewis
Jun 3, 20206 min read
On questionable saints and a Vladimir Putin lookalike
I like to fancy myself a bit of an amateur hagiologist, meaning I am fascinated by the lives of the saints. I am less interested, though,...
Alaric Mark Lewis
Jun 2, 20204 min read
On a sex worker, judgement, and grace
When I was twelve years old my absolute favourite teacher of all time - Colonel Bouldin - announced that he had to be away for some time...
Alaric Mark Lewis
May 29, 20204 min read
On 27 years ago today and tomorrow
Being a person who rarely has a thought that I don't write down, each year around this time I look back at the days running up to my...
Alaric Mark Lewis
May 27, 20204 min read
On climbing trees and being still
When I was a child we had, on the border between our garden and Miss Crain's next door, a maple tree that was perfect for climbing. Since...
Alaric Mark Lewis
May 27, 20204 min read
On an Excalibur-wannabe, story, and grace
Years ago, I was staying with the family of my friend Alessandro just outside of Siena. At dinner my first evening there, Ale's father...
Alaric Mark Lewis
May 22, 20203 min read
On the Bocca della Verità and Giovanni Battista de Rossi
I was 19 years old when I first stuck my hand in the Bocca della Verità – the Mouth of Truth – and, though I'm not a superstitious...
Alaric Mark Lewis
May 22, 20204 min read
On - yes - a bell ringing once again
Yesterday evening I went over to St George Colegate Church to ring a bell at 8:00 pm for our NHS carers. I am aware that the remit is to...
Alaric Mark Lewis
May 21, 20206 min read
On imagining, the Ascension, and Flannery O'Connor
Her name was Sandy, and though most who met her described her as “bubbly,” I, personally, never thought that did her justice. Ordinary...
Alaric Mark Lewis
May 20, 20203 min read
On famous last words and the Ascension
Amongst my many peculiarities, I enjoy reading the last words that people say before they die. Since I am the kind of person who always...
Alaric Mark Lewis
May 20, 20204 min read
On the Sound of Music and a loud Canadian named Jack
Thirty-five years ago, travelling around a bit, I decided to go to Salzburg. Now I can tell you that I went for the architecture, for the...
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