Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

Last Thursday, I was surprised when I encountered the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette headline “ Penn Hills church in Anglican Diocese abandons its...

I think I have done all the tweaking of my blog design that I’m going to do for the foreseeable future. In principle, I love the Blogger gad...

Mostly, the new format for Lionel Deimel’s Web Log is working fine. I just fixed a problem with Google Analytics, which I use to track visi...

I spent time today—less than I expected—redesigning my blog with Blogger’s latest templates. (See my previous post, “ Oops! ”) I think the r...

You may have noticed that this blog looks different today. I have been trying out Blogger’s new interface, and, when I went to modify the co...

Today, the Rev. Bruce Robison, rectory of St. Andrew’s, Highland Park , and I are announcing a new blog, Our Pittsburgh Diocese . The idea f...

Reading material favoring the adoption of the Anglican Covenant is largely a boring and depressing enterprise. The most common “argument” as...

Yesterday, over a leisurely breakfast, I read carefully the Diocese of Pittsburgh’s Diocesan Profile , red pen in hand. (See “ Diocesan Prof...

The Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh posted its Diocesan Profile as part of the search for the eighth Bishop of Pittsburgh late yesterday. T...

On July 27, 2011, The Daily Show ran a segment called “GOP—Special Victims Unit.” Among other things, this funny but disturbing piece showe...

I had breakfast at Chick-fil-A this morning. I didn’t feel like cooking, and I was tired of McDonald’s and other fast-food alternatives. Wh...

Last Sunday, August 14, 2011, I attended morning worship at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Northern Cambria, Pennsylvania. The church is new...

A few days ago, the militant and misleadingly named American Anglican Council published a long essay by the Rev. Prof. Stephen Noll titled ...

The Rev. David Wilson has written a post in response to, among other things, my post of August 2, 2011, “ David Wilson Complains, Warns .” H...

A friend and I visited Horseshoe Curve , near Altoona, Saturday. I have long wanted to visit this famous railroad landmark, but, before now,...

On Sunday, August 7, 2011, I again attended the service at St. James, Penn Hills . (Note: The Church seems to use “James” without an apostro...

The London riots of the past few days have received a lot of attention on radio and television. I was taken aback today, however, when I hea...

Why do things vanish into thin air but never into thick air ? Why do some things happen in broad daylight but not in narrow daylight or b...

All Things Considered began its broadcast today with the search for an explanation for today’s big drop in the stock market. Perhaps the ex...

The Rev. David Wilson, one of the most aggressively partisan Duncanite priests before the schism in the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh and ...