Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

I have long been an aficionado of Heintz ketchup, which, I long ago concluded, tastes strongly of tomatoes, whereas competing brands general...

For the past few days, I have been doing some work on a laptop computer, though my standard desktop machine has been running and being used ...

My friend and literary critic Jane Little liked my poem written for Barack Obama’s inauguration. (See “ Inauguration Poem .”) She urged me t...

Many of my poems are topical, but I have an unfortunate habit of writing poems for specific occasions just in time for the event celebrated....

I returned home yesterday after being out-of-town for a few days. As is usually the case when I am away, Darlene, my cat-sitter, had come by...

Ever since the Presiding Bishop acknowledged that those who did not follow Bishop Robert Duncan out of The Episcopal Church represented the...

My campaign to have the information updated on the Anglican Communion Web site for the Diocese of Pittsburgh (see “ Change It Now! ”) has la...

Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich’s surprise appointment yesterday of Roland Burris to the Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama has received ...

I was distressed that, even after Bishop Duncan was deposed, the convention of the Diocese of Pittsburgh voted to “realign,” and Presiding B...

I hope that I didn’t lead any readers to think I was going to cover the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh’s special convention in anything lik...

I returned from Evening Prayer and a lovely reception a little while ago. So far, the diocesan convention seems well-planned and well-execut...

The special convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh (i.e., the diocese actually in The Episcopal Church) begins this evening with...

An often-visited page on Lionel Deimel’s Farrago is “ Silent Ls .” There are, it turns out, a significant number of English words that cont...

The annual letter requesting donations for the publication of Trinity arrived in the mail yesterday. Trinity has been the magazine of the ...

I have been doing some computer work for the reorganizing Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh, and this has required a few trips to Brackenridge...

David Virtue has posted a bizarre story about the retired Bishop of Eau Claire, William Wantland, who has been an assisting bishop in the n...

What would you think if you tried to make a purchase on the Web and, after clicking the button to authorize the purchase, you saw the messag...

Yesterday, deputies of the group that voted at the October convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh to leave The Episcopal Church e...

At the October 4 annual convention of the then-united Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh, the Rev. David Wilson preached a surprisingly concili...

As I noted in my last post , I attended the program “ Next Steps: Moving Forward with Grace ” sponsored by the Episcopal Church’s Diocese of...