Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

Anglican Communion News Service announced January 19, 2015, that the Anglican Church of Melanesia adopted the Anglican Covenant at its Nov...

I learned a new word the other day— ultracrepidarian . I haven’t yet been able to work it into conversation, but I look forward to doing so....

The Very Rev. Kelvin Holdsworth Photo by Gordon Smith. Used by permission. Kelvin Holdsworth, Provost of St. Mary’s Cathedral in Glasgo...

Cuba and the U.S. have been negotiating terms for the resumption of normal diplomatic relations. I hope the Americans are inclined to be gen...

President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address tonight. As has become customary, the Republican Party—or should I say the Re...

The Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs released “Report to the Church 2015” on January 9. The press release announcing the new publi...

In recent days, I have repeatedly heard news organizations refer to the search for Hayat Boumeddiene, as a “manhunt.” Boumeddiene, of course...

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...