Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

We often speak of mainline (Protestant) churches in the U.S. It is not always clear what churches are being referred to, how big those churc...

I’m sitting in front of my TV watching CNN and awaiting the tsunami triggered by the substantial earthquake that took place in Chile this mo...

Deposed Episcopal bishop Robert Duncan and his fellow defendants in the Calvary lawsuit filed a notice of appeal today. This fact was acknow...

As it has done with other sporting event, Visa has been sponsoring Winter Olympic Games coverage and advertising that Visa is the only card...

The constitution and canons of The Episcopal Church reflecting changes made by the 2009 General Convention have recently been posted on the ...

My hosting service, WestHost, has now restored all services related to Lionel Deimel’s Farrago and Lionel Deimel’s Web Log . More details c...

Despite the seeming objectivity of time in our daily lives, both our perception of time and of descriptions of time intervals can be affecte...

I was away from my computer for much of yesterday, mostly to shovel more snow and take my cat Zeke to the vet. When I did get back to my com...

I was delighted the other day to see a TV commercial from Best Buy announcing that the store now recycles electronics for free. I have a num...

It is not often that I find an essay from the Anglican Communion Institute (ACI) to be genuinely helpful, but “ The Making and re-making of ...

A February 12, 2010, article in The Salt Lake Tribune got me thinking about gay marriage and, indeed, marriage in general. The story is tit...

We wear black crosses, Dismissed to a holy Lent. How shall we keep it? From “ Haiku Meditations on the Church Year ” by Lionel Deimel.

The Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh marked a milestone yesterday as the new ministry of the Rt. Rev. Kenneth L. Price, Jr., as provisional b...

The Anglican Church in North America certainly failed to earn the Church of England’s imprimatur in the General Synod Wednesday as lay membe...

I’m watching the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics as I write this. Doing so reminded me that one of my first posts on this blog—act...

This afternoon, the General Synod of the Church of England passed the following resolution: That this Synod, aware of the distress cause by ...

A few days ago, I began writing about the snowstorm of February 5–6, 2010. The media pretty much ignored the problems it caused in Pittsburg...

Episcopalians cannot but be pleased with Friday’s court order requiring that control of substantial assets be transferred from the control ...

I received an e-mail message from Blogger today that, in less than two months, I will not be able to publish my blog in the same way I am no...

NPR carried a story this morning about the U.S. military’s finally moving toward eliminating its morally bankrupt “don’t ask, don’t tell” p...