Alaric Mark Lewis
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...
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Alaric Mark Lewis
- Jun 18, 2020
- 4 min
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, 2020
- 5 min
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, 2020
- 4 min
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, 2020
- 6 min
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, 2020
- 5 min
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, 2020
- 4 min
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, 2020
- 6 min
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, 2020
- 4 min
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, 2020
- 4 min
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, 2020
- 4 min
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, 2020
- 4 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 4 min
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, 2020
- 6 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 4 min
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...
Alaric Mark Lewis
- May 19, 2020
- 4 min
On connection and Tony, Tony looking around
Lots of people know that Saint Anthony of Padua is the patron saint of lost things. "Tony, Tony look around: something's lost that must...
Alaric Mark Lewis
- May 15, 2020
- 4 min
On the return of Marguerite and Saint Peter at a matinee of Dreamgirls
The day before yesterday I was walking home from church and saw the woman whom Linus and I had encountered a couple of weeks earlier when...
Alaric Mark Lewis
- May 13, 2020
- 3 min
On dropping through roofs, empty-headed singers, and simplicity
The first time I ever spoke about vocations was twenty-six years ago, as part of a panel of six priests. I was very much second string,...
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