Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

My Photoshopping friend has sent me yet another “portrait.” I think this is his best effort yet. Your intrepid blogger might like to deserve...

I was taught in school that the word often is properly pronounced without a t sound. Increasingly, however, I hear the word pronounced as ...

According to the Sunday edition of Lagos’s Daily Trust , Nigeria’s new Anglican primate, the Most Rev. Nicholas Okoh, called Thursday (May 2...

Today, Rowan Williams issued another of his predictable pastoral letters. (Read it here on the Anglican Communion Web site along with the a...

I spent last Friday and Saturday in a downtown hotel with more than a hundred other people from the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh. We were...

Despite promotion of its “Finale Event” that would have embarrassed P.T. Barnum, ABC’s wrap-up of its six-season-long drama Lost was a dis...

The arrival in my mailbox of the May 17, 2010, issue of The New Yorker reminded me of an unsuccessful campaign I pursued a few years ago. M...

Senator Arlen Specter The press seems to be attributing Joe Sestak’s victory over long-time Pennsylvania senator Arlen Specter in yesterday’...

Reading about the consecrations that took place in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles Saturday, I ran across the headline “ Episcopal Chur...

My Web site, Lionel Deimel’s Farrago has been experiencing a problem. Page banners are not being displayed correctly, and there may be othe...

Now that Mary Glasspool has become the Rt. Rev. Mary Glasspool this afternoon, we can begin reading expressions of horror from the Anglican ...

Mary D. Glasspool I have been counting down the days to the consecration of the Rev. Canon Mary Douglas Glasspool as a suffragan bishop for ...

A friend suggested the other day that The Episcopal Church withdraw from the Anglican Communion for a time. I have not been very sympathetic...

The 2012 General Convention should begin the process of amending the Preamble of The Episcopal Church’s constitution . Recall that it curren...

I suspect that few regular readers of my blog have read about digital invariants in the Recreational Mathematics section of Lionel Deimel’s...

Blog comments sometimes alert readers (and bloggers) to developments they may have missed in other media. For example, a recent comment on ...

I can understand why Hispanic organizations are up in arms over the new immigration law in Arizona. What I cannot understand is why more c...

The consecrations of the Rev. Canon Mary Douglas Glasspool and the Rev. Canon Diane Jardine Bruce as suffragan bishops in the Episcopal Dioc...

I was driving behind a minivan today that had an oval tag of some sort on its rear that was difficult to read. All I could make out was “wag...

As I was driving home, I noticed a clever bumper sticker on the car in front of me at a stop sign: I don’t mind straight people As long as t...