Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

One of the sponsors of some old radio programs I have been listening to on CDs was the General Mills cereal Wheaties. The breakfast cereal f...

I added another poem on the subject of Christian—and especially Anglican—unity to the Poetry section of Lionel Deimel’s Farrago today. This...

Recently, Bishop John Akao, chair of the Church of Nigeria Theological Resource group, published an essay in Church Times under the title “...

I continue to hear from friends in England that votes on the Anglican Covenant within the Church of England have less to do with the Covenan...

I was intrigued by a couple of Bishop Kirk Smith’s tweets from the recent House of Bishops meeting: Archbishop of Congo is hopeful about th...

A good preacher can offer surprising insights and make them sound completely obvious. This thought occurred to me while reading Presiding Bi...

As I’m sure many readers already know, Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court last week rejected Archbishop Robert Duncan’s request for a reheari...

The baseball season has begun, and I have been watching the first two games played by the Pittsburgh Pirates on the television. The Pirates ...

I was delighted this morning to learn via The Lead that the Rt. Rev. Kirk Smith, Bishop of Arizona, was tweeting from the House of Bishops...

An innovation brought to my parish by our current rector is the commemoration of birthdays and anniversaries on the first Sunday of each mon...

Having just reported on a presentation of the pros and cons of the Anglican Covenant—see “ Pittsburgh Covenant Debate ”—I was a presenter my...

The news from Japan seems only to get worse. A nuclear catastrophe seems each hour more probable. This morning, I reflected on events of the...

Sunday afternoon (March 13, 2011), St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in the Highland Park neighborhood of Pittsburgh held the first parish foru...

Yesterday, some friends and I were discussing how Rowan Williams has been such a disappointment as Archbishop of Canterbury. Whereas many of...

I got hungry while running errands today and decided to grab a meal at Wendy’s. My meal came with Wendy’s new “Natural-Cut Fries with Sea Sa...

I have long been interested in the relation of church and state. The principle of separation of church and state is one of American’s greate...

One of the highlights of the debate in the Church of England’s General Synod last November was the address of the Bishop of Lincoln, John Sa...

Let’s get one thing out of the way immediately. I think that the activities of Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church are totally repre...

In its e-mail newsletter yesterday, the Anglican Diocese of Pittsburgh , led by Archbishop Robert Duncan, announced a new section on its Web...

The No Anglican Covenant Coalition has issued a press release dated February 28, 2011. (It’s five hours earlier in London than in Pittsburgh...