Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette finally got around to reporting on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s refusal to hear an appeal from Bob Duncan, ...

Like many Episcopalians, I was very upset by a recent story in The Wall Street Journal by Mollie Ziegler Hemingway. The October 7, 2011, st...

Bishop of Pittsburgh Ken Price and the diocesan chancellor Andy Roman wrote a letter on property negotiations to rectors, wardens, and vestr...

My son, Geoffrey August Deimel, is now the winemaker at Adams County Winery , just outside Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. This sounds like a rath...

Archbishop Robert Duncan has posted a letter on the Anglican Diocese of Pittsburgh Web site addressed “to all clergy and lay leaders of the...

Yesterday, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court denied deposed bishop Robert Duncan (now Archbishop of the Anglican Church in North America) the r...

The Episcopal Diocese of Oklahoma seems to have been particularly conscientious in developing a diocesan response to the Anglican Covenan...

My friend in the Anglican Diocese of Pittsburgh David Wilson remarked on my lack of comment on the news that Bishop of South Carolina Mark ...

I watched the first installment of the new Ken Burns movie, Prohibition , on PBS tonight. I have always thought that prohibition was one of ...

The Associated Press reported today that the Connecticut Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut and aga...

I recently proposed, for consideration by the 77th General Convention next year, an omnibus resolution on the Anglican Communion, the primar...

Since September 1, 2011, when I announced the page on my Web site listing essays favoring the Anglican Covenant published by The Living Chu...

The Office of Communication of The Episcopal Church has published what is being called a style guide, “ Brand Guidelines for the Episcopal C...

In my last post, “ A Proposed Resolution for General Convention 2012 ,” I suggested, among other things, that The Episcopal Church declare t...

The 2012 General Convention of The Episcopal Church will need to deal with the Anglican Covenant. It can accept it, reject it, or do someth...

This is the eleventh and final installment looking back at commentary and poetry I wrote following the events of September 11, 2001. The ten...

Today, the military’s (or should I say Congress’s?) policy of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell has come to an end. It’s high time that happened, thou...

This is the tenth installment looking back at commentary and poetry I wrote following the events of September 11, 2001. The ninth installmen...

Despite being urged to boycott Chick-fil-A—see “ But Is it Oatmeal? —I had breakfast at my local Chick-fil-A restaurant today. When it was t...

This is the ninth installment looking back at commentary and poetry I wrote following the events of September 11, 2001. The eighth installme...