Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

St. David’s sign. The old church can be seen at the right. Episcopal Church services returned to St. David’s in Peters Township on this ...

My Oxalis—see picture below—seems to be sick. In many ways, the plant seems fine, but the leaflets have developed white spots. Can anyone su...

An interesting thought occurred to me yesterday. What sparked the idea was the news story that Pakistani doctor Shakeel Afrid had been co...

Pittsburgh’s bishop-elect was in town yesterday for a brief visit, and Progressive Episcopalians of Pittsburgh (PEP) took the opportunity to...

Calvary Rector to Retire The Rev. Canon Dr. Harold T. Lewis has announced that he will be retiring from his current position as rect...

Every now and then, my inner Ogden Nash comes to the fore and I begin thinking of poems lacking, well, gravity. Having written no poetry sin...

In its upcoming General Convention in July, The Episcopal Church will have to decide how it will deal with the Anglican Covenant . Although ...

I am listening to a discussion on NPR about the bounties offered to New Orleans Saints defensive players to take out opposing players and ab...

I made some changes to Lionel Deimel’s Web Log today that should make commenting easier. I had received a number of complaints from people ...

Paul Bagshaw has been reading the FoCA tea leaves over on his blog Not the same stream . FoCA, of course, is the Fellowship of Confessing A...

Morning Edition interviewed Norman Ornstein, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, today. Ornstein, along with Thomas...

The No Anglican Covenant Coalition, of which I am the Episcopal Church convenor, has released a model resolution for the 2012 General Conven...

While driving home today, I saw a bumper sticker I had not seen before. It’s too bad I couldn’t put the obvious sign below it. Here is the ...

As I’m sure most readers who care about the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh know by now, Dorsey McConnell of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, w...

The Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh held a session tonight to allow people to speak about the nominees to become Pittsburgh’s eighth bishop....

A few days ago, I expressed ambivalence—see “ On Giving Advice about the Next Archbishop of Canterbury ”—about offering my opinion regarding...

In my last post on the subject, I offered some objective measures that allow the candidates vying to become Pittsburgh’s next bishop to be ...

I was upset to learn today that the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh—its bishop, anyway—signed on to a statement by Christian Associates of...