Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

The thought occurred to me the other day that participants in major team sports are called players . We have baseball players, basketball pl...

My last post, “ Trinity Sunday Comma Problem ,” was written rather hurriedly. A comment on Facebook, however, caused me to look more closely...

The Book of Common Prayer (p. 228) gives this collect for Trinity Sunday (First Sunday after Pentecost): Almighty and everlasting God, you...

Today’s Pittsburgh Post-Gazette carries a letter to the editor from me. It involves a controversy related to a student’s participation in a...

I have been a Lewis Carroll fan for as long as I can remember. I think I knew the poem “Jabberwocky” even before I entered kindergarten. I w...

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When I was an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, I held various positions on the college’s yearbook staff. I was never officially a...

When I was a teenager, I was responsible for recording sermons on a reel-to-reel recorder at my Presbyterian church, so I worked closely w...

Partners in Preservation, an initiative of American Express and the National Trust for Historic Preservation, is going to distribute $1 mill...

The Diocese of Pittsburgh today offered an update on the sexuality dialogue. I had been led to believe that the update would include commen...

The Scottish Episcopal Church (SEC) has published a serious essay on marriage. The essay considers both heterosexual marriage and the possib...

Has The Episcopal Church been losing the public relations competition with those who have left the church in San Joaquin, Pittsburgh, Fort W...

In my last post, “ Remembering the Bad Ol’ Days ,” I called attention to Harold Lewis’s complaint about how Diocesan Council, under the in...

I have spent a lot of time recently trying to eliminate the ocean of paper I have accumulated over the years. Many of the documents I have h...

“My friend Jane was telling me the other day what a travesty it was that The Rev. Dr. Luis León, Rector of St. John’s Church, Lafayette Squa...

This morning, I was reading a post from Public Policy Polling titled “ Conspiracy Theory Poll Results .” The piece provides more data in sup...

I remember the first time I heard someone speaking of googling something. I was already familiar with Google, and I immediately understood ...

I am beginning to hear grumblings over the seemingly slow progress of our formal sexuality dialogue in the Diocese of Pittsburgh. Recall tha...

As happened in Pittsburgh, the schism of an Episcopal Church diocese and the claims of the resulting parties have made it difficult to know...

Homosexuality is a topic of great interest in the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh just now. Like people elsewhere in the country, we have be...