Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

My last post on the upcoming primates’ meeting was long in coming. I had intended to write about possible outcomes of the meeting, but I was...

The next major crisis facing The Episcopal Church in its conflict with reactionary forces within the Anglican Communion is the primates’ mee...

In preparation for a post I was planning to make regarding the upcoming primates’ meeting, I had listed all the advantages of being in the A...

The letter L is usually not the first letter one thinks of when silent letters are discussed. Three years ago, however, I began compiling a ...

The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is fast approaching. With minor exceptions, this is celebrated between January 18 and 25. Episcopali...

I have made it easier (I think) to subscribe to Lionel Deimel’s Web Log . I am still new to the notion of syndication, however, and my perce...

I have been a blogger for nearly five years now, although even a casual look at my blog archive will reveal that I have not always been a ve...

For a number of years, my church has used the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols as its principal service on the Sunday after Christmas. Si...

Holy Baptism was celebrated at my church yesterday. Before the service, I checked the bulletin to find out who was being baptized. Here is ...

A recent story from The Living Church began with the following news: On the eve of Nevada Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori’s investiture a...

The Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh holds its annual convention this Friday and Saturday, November 3 and 4. The main business of the conven...

The message the Bush administration wanted to send yesterday was that the Republican Party is not going to lose control of either the House ...

In a recent post , I commented on pronunciations that appear to be the product of well-meaning ignorance. I though I had found another examp...

I heard a phrase in a television commercial today that one hears often. The phrase is “eat healthy,” presumably meaning eat lots of fruits a...

Have you noticed that some people’s scrupulous pronunciation gets them into trouble? Sometimes this appears to be the effect of wanting to a...

The bishops meeting in New York this week issued a joint statement Wednesday morning, September 13. The statement, as reported by Episcopa...

A small number of Episcopal bishops, including the Presiding Bishop and the Presiding Bishop-elect, are meeting for three days in New York C...

There has been a good deal of comment on the Web about the bizarre and cheesy TV commercial for the headache remedy HeadOn. Besides having p...

I had to perform a hard reset of my Palm V yesterday My choice seemed to be to try a hard reset or to throw away the unit and buy a new one....

Gore Vidal was the last author to set me off by the niggardly use of commas (see “ Commas ”). The latest author to do so is J. K. Rowling, w...