GRAFTED IN: On What Makes Us Who We Are
A passport records a legal fact; it cannot tell you who you are. Drawing on St. Paul, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas and the social sciences, Fr. G. V. W. Lewis argues that identity is formed by faith, culture and memory over generations, answers the ‘invented nation’ theorists, and proposes Ruth and the grafted olive as the Christian model of belonging — received, slow, and open to all who take root.
The Man Who Could Not Read
From the Parthenon to Bach's autographs, Durham's vaults to the Moon landing: what the West has made, and why it burns so easily. After Mosul's museum, Palmyra and 47 French libraries struck in 2023, Fr. Lewis asks what happens when migration outpaces inheritance and doctrine meets the mob, and finds the deepest danger is a West that no longer teaches its own children to read.
Islam, Haram, and the Fate of the West
There are conversations that polite society prefers to defer, always hoping that the urgency will somehow resolve itself. This is no longer one of those conversations. Churches have been set ablaze. Synagogues have been firebombed. Sacred art has been desecrated. And across European and North American cities, the accumulated heritage of two thousand years of Christian civilisation — its music, its sculpture, its literature, its architecture — is increasingly subject to demands, pressures, and acts of hostility rooted in a theological framework that considers much of that heritage to be, quite literally, forbidden. The name of that framework is haram.
