Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

Two earlier posts dealt with the court order issued by Judge Joseph M. James today in the Calvary litigation. They are available here and h...

As is now clear, there are public and confidential (redacted) versions of today’s order in the Calvary lawsuit. The Episcopal Diocese of Pit...

(Updated 1/29/2010 at 1:51 pm) Nearly four months after Judge Joseph M. James declared that diocesan property should be held and administer...

I am not a person inclined to rail against materialism, but rampant materialism was at least partly responsible for my being upset when I vi...

    If Jesus died for our sins, what did he live for?

I’ve been doing laundry and cleaning up in my bedroom. Before I left home this afternoon to run some errands, I had thrown a blanket on top ...

The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles reported January 12, 2010, that the 120-day consent process has begun for suffragan-bishops-elect Mary...

When the final draft of the proposed Anglican covenant was released, I was eager to understand the revised Section 4, what some have called...

Let me begin by saying that, when I wrote “ Communion Transparency, Take 3 ” this morning, I did not expect to write a post with the title o...

I have more to report on the governance of the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC). On Christmas Eve, I wrote a post titled “ Communion Tran...

As regular readers know, I don’t often post material from others on my blog. The essay below is an exception to my usual practice. The Rev. ...

One thing is certain: today is the first day of two thousand ten (or is it twenty ten?). Be that as it may, the media universally have been ...

Dr. Joan Gundersen has offered insight into the apparent changes that have occurred in the rules governing the Anglican Consultative Council...

The Anglican Communion Institute (ACI) posted an essay two days ago about the adoption process for the Anglican covenant. “ Committing to th...

In a newscast earlier today, NPR reported on the problems Eurostar has had with its trains that run under the English Channel. Service has ...

It is tiresome hearing Republican Senators complaining about the deals Democrats had to make to move the health care bill forward. I share t...

Until yesterday, I had never seen a 3D movie. I felt I needed an escape for a few hours, so I went to a theater to see James Cameron’s new m...

I'm sitting in front of my computer on the Saturday before Christmas and looking out my window at the snow that has been falling since a...

Have you noticed that some people are pronouncing “electronics” differently these days? The word crops up a lot in this season, as stores su...

The “Final Text”of the Anglican covenant was released today. It is, of course, a draft; there may never be an Anglican covenant, much less t...