Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

In the form of the Prayers of the People (Form III) that we used in church Sunday, I noticed that the word “catholic” was capitalized. I tho...

I was recently sent a pamphlet written by former Florida appellate judge Robert P. Smith titled “On Pressing the Apostle Paul: Attesting the...

I wrote the poem below in 2002 and added it to my Web site , along with a description of its origin. I posted it on my blog last year and h...

“Ten Reasons Why the Proposed Anglican Covenant Is a Bad Idea” was posted on Thinking Anglicans two days ago, and, although many of the com...

There is a lot of material on the Web arguing that the Anglican Covenant is un-Anglican, dangerous, divisive, poorly drawn, or just plain st...

My recent post “ Two Anglican Thought Experiments ” got me thinking about the nature of communion and of agreements concerning communion bet...

In checking out developments in the Anglican world tonight, I visited the ACNA Web site , which, at the bottom of the front page, has the no...

Today, I offer two tenuously related thought experiments having to do with Anglicanism. Experiment 1. Anglicanism has made much of apostoli...

Never have I been as disappointed in President Obama as I am tonight after the announcement of the capitulation to the Republicans over exte...

It has now been a week since the Church of England General Synod voted to move the Anglican Covenant along the path to adoption. Whereas the...

The Church of England moved closer to adopting the Anglican Covenant this past week as its General Synod voted overwhelmingly to send the Co...

Blogs haven’t developed many traditions, but I am perhaps starting one here today. Last year on Thanksgiving Day, I offered my poem “Thanksg...

I wrote a new collect today. You can read about the inspiration for it here . The collect: Architect of the universe, who endowed us with a ...

The Church of England General Synod, voting by orders, passed the Anglican Covenant. The Vote: Bishops: 39 for, 0 against, 1 abstain Clergy:...

The No Anglican Covenant Coalition only announced its advent this past November 3 with this news release . The first real test of the Coalit...

It is no secret that the impetus for an Anglican covenant came from conservatives, mostly Evangelical, but some Anglo-Catholic. It is also n...

Cow In my reading recently, I was reminded that this item is part of the Anglican Covenant : (4.1.3) Such mutual commitment does not repre...