Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

Judging from the number of comments elicited by her recent post about Executive Council’s encounter with Canon Kenneth Kearon, lots of peop...

This morning, I read a June 18, 2010, article in Church Times about the then upcoming General Synod of the Scottish Episcopal Church (SEC)...

There has been much discussion on the Internet about Episcopalians being removed from bodies involved in ecumenical discussions. It is diffi...

Submissions to the Studio 360 “ Redesign July 4th Challenge ” are due by midnight tomorrow. (See my earlier post on the subject here .) Aft...

I found myself writing about the ubiquitous remote controls for electronic devices that we all seem to have too many of these days. Not once...

Those of us in Progressive Episcopalians of Pittsburgh have been saying since 2003 that the Anglican church wars are all about power. As th...

The PRI program Studio 360 is running a “ Redesign July 4th Challenge .” The producers suggest that Uncle Sam and the National Anthem could...

Episcopalians have now been bounced from ecumenical discussions carried on by the Anglican Communion. (See “ Too Much Power Already .”) Sure...

According to Saturday’s Pittsburgh Post-Gazette , the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh has distributed earnings from investment funds held b...

On May 4, 2010, I noted that Portugal, whose population is predominently Roman Catholic, was on the verge of approving gay marriage. (See “ ...

In response to a comment I made on Preludium , Mark Harris made the following observation: My understanding is that appointment on these com...

I just received e-mail from Anglican Communion News Service announcing, among other things, that the Anglican Communion Office now has an on...

Although the analogy is imperfect, the churches (provinces) of the Anglican Communion are a lot like nation-states. They are autonomous and ...

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...