--- title: Blog Posts – Church Life Journal | Madeline Lewis description: Madeline Lewis is a senior studying English and Theology with a concentration in Creative Writing. She served as a Notre Dame Vision mentor in 2014 and 2016. She believes that there lives the dearest freshness deep down things, and likes tea time, gardens, and cows. --- Search [![churchlife](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/hubfs/Churchlife_Aug2016_Theme/Images/church-life-journal-white-horizontal-1.png)](http://churchlife.nd.edu/) - [Essays](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays) - [Articles](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/articles) - [Blog](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/blog-post) - [Contributors](http://churchlife.nd.edu/contributors/) All posts filed under: BLOG POSTS ## Madeline Lewis ![](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/hubfs/lewis_madeline.jpeg) Madeline Lewis is a senior studying English and Theology with a concentration in Creative Writing. She served as a Notre Dame Vision mentor in 2014 and 2016. She believes that there lives the dearest freshness deep down things, and likes tea time, gardens, and cows. ### Recent Posts [![](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Open-door-crop.jpg)](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/blog-post/2016/03/01/doors-of-mercy-neither-push-nor-pull) ## [Doors of Mercy: Neither Push Nor Pull](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/blog-post/2016/03/01/doors-of-mercy-neither-push-nor-pull) Published by [Madeline Lewis](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/blog-post/author/madeline-lewis) I’d like to begin with a list that quickly becomes a confession: the library, a generous amount of independent bookstores, countless tea shops, the corner grocery store, an art museum, my university flat, the chapel, a handful of pubs, a vast variety of European public transit vehicles. This is a non-exhaustive list of places in England with doors that I have not known how to open and have subsequ... 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