Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

Yesterday’s sermon at my church referred to God a lot. Although the word “God” was frequently mentioned, no masculine pronoun was used to re...

“Sluggish” was hardly adequate to characterize the abysmal performance of Episcopal Café when the new site was rolled out nearly three we...

I posted a curve-stitch design a few days ago that I thought had interesting properties. A slight modification of the design yields the ima...

; Click on image for a larger view. Update, 12/15/2014: I posted a related design on 12/13/2014. You can view it here .

Although I have not been trying systematically to discover everything odd or simply wrong with the re-designed Episcopal Café , I do keep ...

As many readers surely know, Episcopal Café has been redesigned. There were several reasons for updating the collection of Episcopal blog...

It’s time for the annual posting of my poem “Thanksgiving,” which I wrote in 2002. (Details can be found on my Web site  here .) May all...

Kim Bobo has written a concise summary of the disaster that is the situation at The General Seminary, a subject I have written about before....

The annual convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh was held this past weekend, on November 7 & 8, at Trinity Cathedral. Progr...

Before yesterday’s elections, Bill Maher, on his HBO show Real Time with Bill Maher , excoriated Democratic candidates for not embracing Bar...

No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by u...

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 ...