Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

Old St. Luke’s is an historic church of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh that had its origin in colonial times and played a role in the ...

One of the things I thought about after the attack on September 11, 2001 was what it must have been like to be in the World Trade Center tow...

A drive through central Pennsylvania yesterday led to my writing the poem below. Wind turbines are a common sight in rural Pennsylvania th...

While preparing dinner tonight, I was listening to the broadcast of the Pirates-Giants game on the radio. For much of the game, the score wa...

I received a surprising e-mail message yesterday from my church, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Mt. Lebanon, Pa. The subject line read “E...

I got a call from my son, Geoffrey August Deimel, around noon yesterday. He wanted to tell me that he had just learned that one of his wines...

I received an e-mail message the other day from  Jason Togyer, a parishioner at St. Stephen’s McKeesport. Jason had participated in one of ...

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...