Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

Tomorrow, Essential Public Media takes over the management of WDUQ-FM. On July 1, 2011, most jazz disappears from 90.5 FM. (Until the FCC a...

Yesterday’s e-mail newsletter from the Anglican Diocese of Pittsburgh carried the story that the congregation of St. James, Penn Hills, was...

It is good that the Executive Council of The Episcopal Church reversed its previous position and released the February 15, 2011, report fro...

One of the joys of summer is making and eating gazpacho, that cold Spanish soup that is a kind of semi-liquid salad. I usually get a craving...

Yesterday, the report from the Standing Commission on Constitution and Canons offering the commission’s views on the canonical changes that ...

Today, GAFCON announced yesterday’s advent of the Anglican Mission in England (AMIE). Its origin was explained this way: The AMIE has been ...

I have offered my thoughts about most of the parts of the Anglican Covenant. I have tried to wrap my mind around the complexities of Section...

A story from Episcopal News Service at the end of last week’s meeting of the Executive Council has caused something of an insurrection amon...

A number of dioceses of The Episcopal Church have publicized statements concerning the Anglican Communion that were submitted to the Executi...

I was reading Dave Walker’s The Cartoon Blog the other day. I usually do this in search of funny cartoons about the church, and I was surpr...

I have written a number of posts about the defects of the Anglican Covenant . (I won’t try to list them all here. See the Table of Contents ...

I received a letter from Mt. Lebanon a week or two ago alerting me to the fact that part of my street, Rockwood Avenue, is being repaved. In...

Compact fluorescent light bulbs are supposed to last a long time, one of the reputed benefits that justifies their high prices compared to c...

T oday is Flag Day in the U.S. (and, as it happens, my son’s anniversary). The Stars and Stripes, with many fewer stars, of course, was adop...

I received a news item from Anglican Communion News Service (ACNS) this morning titled “ Archbishop of Canterbury’s statement on South Kordo...

When it was announced that Pittsburgh’s WDUQ-FM had been sold to Essential Public Media, it was clear that WDUQ would remain a nonprofit pub...

Scott Lively Before his name surfaced as having contributed to inciting homophobic frenzy in Uganda, I had never heard of Scott Lively. I wo...

I just received a press release from the Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin titled “Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin Authorizes Blessing of S...

The Rev. Dr. Alyson Barnett-Cowan, Director for Unity, Faith and Order in the Anglican Communion Office, has been a strong advocate for the ...

I was thinking today about the psychological overload that must be the initial reaction of Anglicans when they first visit the Resources pag...