Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

The Board of Directors of Progressive Episcopalians of Pittsburgh is concerned about growing income inequality in America. To promote concer...

The firing of the eight faculty members of the General Theological Seminary was a shock. (See The GTS 8 and the Michaelmas Massacre .) Yest...

Members of the Board of Trustees of the General Theological Seminary and the GTS 8 will meet tomorrow in a discussion facilitated by former ...

Political ads that shade the truth or pull punches are tiresome. Here’s an ad that does neither. It comes from the Agenda Project. (Details...

Tablet Magazine has published a fascinating interview with the Rev. Bruce Shipman, the Episcopal Yale chaplain who was forced to resign aft...

As readers will perhaps remember, I was unimpressed with the study paper on networks from the Task Force for Reimagining the Episcopal Churc...

Voter ID laws are again in the news today. This issue is becoming tiresome, since rational people know very well that the movement to requir...

Much to my delight, I received a large envelope from Australia yesterday. It contained copies of the latest issue of Vinculum a journal of ...

Our prayer book is a wonderful source of prayers for almost any occasion. (Curiously, however, it includes no prayer for the celebration of ...

I just finished watching the churchwide meeting held by the Task Force for Reimagining the Episcopal Church (TREC). I had low expectations f...

By now, many readers are aware of recent events at The Episcopal Church’s oldest seminary. For those who do not, I will recount a brief summ...

From time to time, I have mentioned  hymns I have written. I have also posted hymn parodies (e.g., “ All Things Bright and Beautiful ”) in m...

When I learned of the latest communication from the Task Force for Reimagining the Church , I immediately planned to offer a comprehensive r...

Let me begin by admitting that our system of corporate taxation is out of whack. It is not clear that corporations should be taxed at all. O...

I’ve been accumulating several language issues I’ve wanted to write about, and I thought I’d just deal with all of them in one post. Sewa...

I was driving home from Geneva, New York, today and heard an episode of the radio program “Democracy Now!” a public radio program I had neve...

In 2011, I wrote a poem titled “Labor Day Lament, 2011.” Alas, the poem seems as relevant today as it did three years ago. This year, howeve...

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...