Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

A new service aimed at Pittsburgh Episcopalians is being launched today. It should also be of interest to Episcopalians elsewhere. Specifica...

Pennsylvania is receiving a lot of attention from the candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination. The battle for votes in the up...

Having written several rather serious posts of late, perhaps it’s time for some comic relief, or something completely different, anyway. In ...

In an earlier post , I analyzed Bishop Robert Duncan’s letter to the Presiding Bishop intended to prevent him from being deposed by the Hous...

Below is the letter from Bishop Robert Duncan referred to in my post of earlier today, “ Duncan Responds .” It is instructive to analyze the...

The Diocese of Pittsburgh today released a letter from Bishop Robert Duncan to Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori dated March 14, ...

Certain English words have multiple meanings, some of which can be virtual opposites of one another. “Sanction” is one of these, which can ...

NOTE: I have been following the presidential primaries closely, but I haven’t had much time to comment on them. Tomorrow, however, could be...

An article in yesterday’s Pittsburgh Post-Gazette described an open letter from laypeople in the Diocese of Pittsburgh supporting Bishop Ro...

NPR carried a report yesterday of another school shooting, this one at a Baton Rouge vocational school. The reporter rather clumsily explain...

That the Title IV Review Committee concluded that the former San Joaquin bishop, John-David Schofield, has abandoned the communion of The E...

The Episcopal Church has been much in the news in the past few years, but it is difficult to be thankful for all the publicity. Whereas, his...

The big news in The Episcopal Church (and, I suppose, in the Anglican Communion) is the Diocese of San Joaquin’s alleged “realignment” to be...

In light of the Diocese of San Joaquin’s reputed transfer from The Episcopal Church to the Southern Cone this past weekend, I find myself w...

This weekend, I watched the convention of the Diocese of San Joaquin on Anglican TV , as, with some jubilation, it changed its constitution ...

My friend and fellow parishioner at St. Paul’s, Mt. Lebanon , Jane Little, has written a reflection on the current situation in the Diocese ...