Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

There has been much commentary lately about how legislative districts have become less competitive. Districts have been gerrymandered to be ...

I read a piece by Mark Sandlin this morning, the title of which was “ 10 MORE Things Churches Can’t Do While Following Jesus .” Number 2 on ...

On several occasions recently, I have heard news people using the term “videotaping.” The word is more specific than simply “recording,” whi...

In my post “ Missing Episcopal Words ,” I noted that the URLs http://episcopalchurch.org and http://dfms.org take the visitor to the same ...

Despite some initial reticence, I have become a regular user of Facebook. I wouldn’t say I love Facebook, but it is  useful. I post on m...

I’ve begun reading To Kill a Mockingbird , which I should have read a long time ago. In Chapter 5, I was surprised to encounter a reference ...

I have had a problem with the last several boxes of Ritz crackers I’ve purchased. The crackers are packaged in four cellophane sleeves in ...

Today’s Gospel reading was the feeding of the five thousand (Matthew 14:13–21). As I listened to the reading in church this morning, I imag...

I was thinking broiled fish when I went to Walmart to shop today, but the store had frozen cod, so I decided to make cod au gratin. I discov...

I spent much of Friday and Saturday in Ontario sampling the products of the many wineries there. I had never been to Ontario before, and I d...

I get information concerning where visitors to my blog are located. Not surprisingly, more visitors are from the United States than from any...

Since September 11, 2001, any instance of violence we don’t like is called terrorism. This practice is manipulative, but it has become the 2...

The bug I discovered after I installed Nuance Power PDF Advanced on my computer appears to have been fixed.  I reported in an earlier post ...

A severe outbreak of amnesia has struck the southeastern portion of South Carolina. Epidemiologists have observed that the disorder seems to...

I was surprised to see this listing in the new directory from the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh: Apparently, as of July 1, 2014, the ...

After some delay—see “ Bishop Answers Questions, Explains Same-Sex Marriage Delay ”—Dorsey McConnell, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese...

I have been using PDF Converter Professional 8 from Nuance Communications, Inc., to create and modify PDF files. Functionally, the program i...

The Hobby Lobby decision handed down by the United States Supreme Court on June 30, 2014, has filled my head with reflections on what I co...

The media have a big effect on how we view the world. Even when striving for objectivity—objectivity is a very slippery concept—bias can cre...

As I have written a number of times, the Great Vigil of Easter is my favorite church service and the highlight of the church year. In 2001, ...