Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

Two days ago, I wrote about the arrogance of Roman Catholic bishops in their commentary on this week’s Supreme Court decisions involving sam...

There was much celebration Wednesday, when the Supreme Court struck down the federal government’s denial of marital benefits to validly marr...

Not surprisingly, U.S. Catholic bishops were unhappy with today’s Supreme Court decision regarding the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). In fa...

Today was a good, if not perfect, day for marriage equality. On the basis of equal protection, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Defen...

For whatever reason, news from the diocese has been in short supply of late. The most recent news item on the Diocese of Pittsburgh Web site...

A few months ago, I completed an on-line songwriting course. The last course assignment involved doing final edits on a song I had written f...

Exodus International , the nearly 40-year-old Christian organization that claimed that same-sex attraction could be mitigated through “r...

The rumors I had heard that Cathy Brall will be leaving Trinity Cathedral were confirmed in a letter I received today in the mail. The Re...

Archbishop Robert Duncan delivered his State of the Church address to the Provincial Council of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) ...

Progressive Episcopalians of Pittsburgh met last night at Calvary Church.The program promised A Panel Discussion on the State of the Diocese...

Branding from new ACNS site Anglican Communion News Service (ACNS), which hitherto shared space on the Anglican Communion Web site , has...

Many people—far too few, I’m afraid—are disturbed that the government is tracking their e-mail messages and telephone calls. Even if, as we ...

The “Pope girl” incident at Carnegie Mellon University reached something of a conclusion today, as indecent exposure misdemeanor charges we...

Some time ago, I began writing an essay titled “Christianity and Gay Marriage” in which I intended to take on opposition to same-sex marriag...

In my last post , I indicated that my replacement text for “Earth and All Stars” was probably not in its final form. As a result of personal...

Three years ago, I wrote a blog post about the hymn “Earth and All Stars.” The post was “ New Verses for a Bad Hymn .” (Read that post for s...

The organist/choirmaster at St. Andrew’s, Highland Park , Peter Luley, put this post on Facebook on Thursday: It’s officially on: A brief...

Calvary Episcopal Church , one of the largest and wealthiest parishes in the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh , is looking for a new rector, ...

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...