Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

I have not been a big fan of Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams. As he comes to the end of his tenure, however, I’d like to say a few w...

Last Tuesday, the General Synod of the Church of England rejected a measure to allow women to become bishops. (See “ Church of England Rejec...

Here is another poem inspired by Facebook. I wrote his poem this morning. Friendship by Lionel Deimel When Facebook friends ar...

The General Synod of the Church of England has just voted to reject the legislation that would have authorized women bishops. A two-thirds v...

I heard an interview with mathematician Thomas Hales on the radio yesterday. Hales is notable for having apparently proved the Kepler conjec...

The Anglican cathedral in Christchurch, New Zealand, has been damaged by two major earthquakes, and what to do with the building has become ...

Like many Anglicans around the world, I have been trying to figure out just what we have gotten in the newly named Archbishop of Canterbury,...

I was returning home with a friend tonight after attending the first day of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh’s annual convention. We were...

1. Outreach I was listening to a radio interview of a couple of Republican Party operatives who were addressing the question of whether an...

ACC-15, the meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council concluded yesterday in Auckland, New Zealand. The most representative body of Angli...

How do you pronounce primer ? I ask this because a promotional announcement on my local NPR station used the pronunciation pry-mer to refer...

Living in Pennsylvania, I have not seen a lot of Obama for President TV spots. My impression, however, is that the kind of spots I would lik...

To the surprise of many, Mitt Romney is visiting Pennsylvania today. Admittedly, I haven’t made a scientific study of campaign rallies, but ...

Bishop Victoria Matthews I was dismayed by the report from Anglican Communion News Service (ACNS) the other day about a talk given by B...

Pennsylvania’s voter ID law, Act 18, might seem like a solution in search of a problem. The problem the law was designed to solve, however...

In my post “ An Election Proposal ,” I made a statement that has attracted some criticism. I wrote in an aside that I will vote for the De...

The day after the second presidential debate, I posted the graphic at the right on Facebook. (Actually, my Facebook graphic included a mis...

Last week, a joint statement was announced by the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh and Shepherd's Heart Fellowship, a ministry to the ho...

About a month ago, I wrote a tongue-in-cheek news report of how a bird died in my bird feeder. (See “ Bird Feeder Claims First Victim .”) Th...