Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

The Week of Prayer for Christian Diversity has had me thinking about what praying for diversity is all about. I have been asked, for exampl...

The Rev. Bosco Peters, an Anglican priest in Christchurch, New Zealand, writes the Liturgy blog. Bosco has declared, unilaterally it seems,...

Many years ago, my aunt gave me a railroad spike. I don’t know the history of the spike, but it is a used one. After it was pulled up, someo...

I wrote a poem for Barack Obama’s first inauguration. That poem, “ Hail Barack Obama ,” was perhaps overly optimistic in tone. Four years la...

Following the Sandy Hook massacre, everyone seems to be talking about what to do about guns. With President Obama having made his own propos...

Trends can be hard to spot, sometimes even if you’re caught up in them. Having someone name an ongoing phenomenon of which you have been onl...

Holy Baptism is especially appropriate at the Easter Vigil, on the Day of Pentecost, on All Saints’ Day or the Sunday after All Saints’ Day...

An NPR news story about an Article 32 hearing at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland was part of the news summary today at the beginning of All ...

I was saddened today to learn that singer Patti Page died on New Year’s Day. She was 85, having been born Clara Ann Fowler in Claremore, Ok...

I generally began taking my coffee black when I became concerned about cholesterol. Of course, this meant that I no longer was brewing the d...

This morning, NPR reported that Sandy Hook Elementary will be closed for months and may never reopen. I already knew that surviving faculty ...

My friend Gwendollynn Santiago was ordained to the priesthood yesterday at Pittsburgh’s Trinity Cathedral. Charles Hamill, Terence Johnston,...

Michigan just passed a right-to-work law, and, by way of providing background, NPR ran a brief story this morning about the origin of the t...

Many would argue that Trinity School for Ministry (TSM) has played a critical role in undermining The Episcopal Church. (The official name o...

When I was a young child, I was under the mistaken impression that there were two distinct songs, “Jingle Bells” and “Dashing Through the Sn...

Under the heading LINKS at the right, I have added two links. You can now go directly to my Facebook page or to my page on Twitter. I have...

Ideas often spring from multiple  influences. The day after Thanksgiving, I was stalking eagles, hawks, and waterfowl in the Montezuma Natio...

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...