Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

I was reading a style guide and encountered a section about the slash (/). This reminded me of a pet peeve, which I will mention here in the...

NPR ran a story this morning about how, particularly in the South, opposition to abortion has increased over the years. The story suggested...

The latest electronic newsletter from the Anglican Diocese of Pittsburgh contains this notice: The 148th Diocesan Convention The 148th ...

I logged on to Netflix yesterday to check on the available of a movie and saw this below the usual Netflix menu bar: Because the above ...

I generally find retired Bishop of Rochester Michael Nazir-Ali quite irritating. The same can be said about David Virtue’s Web site VirtueOn...

I am appalled by the reaction to the cover photo of Boston bomber suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev published by Rolling Stone . The objection see...

I indicated in a previous post, “ Who Can Be President of the Pittsburgh Standing Committee? ” that I would be submitting proposals to amend...

Today’s Gospel reading from the Revised Common Lectionary for Proper 10, Year C,  is Luke 10:25–37. It is the familiar story of the good Sam...

The Nature of the Problem In a discussion of diocesan affairs a couple of months ago, someone brought up the fact that, in the Episcopal ...

Having lost Google Reader, I find myself today trying to make sense of Feedly and configuring it in a helpful way, hoping that doing so will...

Progressive Episcopalians of Pittsburgh (PEP) was less than a year old when I was part of a program PEP sponsored at St. Stephen’s, Wilkins...

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) ...