Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

While reading stories about Scottish Cardinal Keith O’Brien’s opposition to the government’s plan to introduce a gay marriage bill, I ran in...

Not long ago, a mini library showed up in front of a house a few doors up the street. The little library can be seen in the figure at right....

Mitt Romney revealed his energy plan today. (See, for example, the NPR story here .) The plan is about what you’d expect and seems to have a...

AlterNet recently published excerpts of Mike Lofgren’s new book The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless a...

Now that Mitt Romney has chosen Paul Ryan as his running mate, he is trying to distance himself from the radical budget proposals of Congres...

Update, 8/12/2012, 3:25 PM. Embarrassingly, I spelled “Gilded” wrong on my original graphic. Clearl...

A few  days ago, Mark Harris, who chaired the subcommittee that sent the substitute Resolutions D008 and B005 to the legislative floor of ...

Presumed Republican candidate Mitt Romney has chosen Wisconsin Republican congressman Paul Ryan as his vice-presidential running mate. I s...

Yet another banking scandal is in the news today. This got me thinking about the right wing of the Republican Party. I know that the Tea Par...

Two days ago, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori offered her views on the 77th General Convention in a message to the church . Not s...

I visited my neighborhood Chick-fil-A restaurant at lunchtime today in the hope of seeing some evidence of the proposed kiss-in. I had no in...

Episcopal dioceses have many ways of determining how many lay deputies to the diocesan convention are allocated to each parish or mission. E...

I was surprised to hear someone using forecasted   as the past tense of forecast in an NPR report this afternoon. I consulted all the dicti...

My most recent post , on the uneven bars, reminded me that one of my first essays as a blogger also involved the Olympics. My introductory p...

Last night, I watched U.S. female gymnasts win Olympic gold in the team competition. I have long enjoyed these competitions with a combinati...

Ten years ago today, 18 coal miners were working the Quecreek mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, when one of the crews of 9 breached a w...

Much of the time that Malcolm French and I spent at General Convention was in the exhibit area, where the No Anglican Covenant Coalition had...

After the passage of the substitutes for resolutions B005 and D008 July 11, 2012, I was too tired to write about what happened. I began a p...

As readers know, I have been writing extensively about the General Convention resolutions concerning the Anglican Covenant. I have been frus...

Revised versions of Resolutions B005 and D008 are now available on the Web. Unfortunately, the new resolutions have replaced the original ...