Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

I am a big fan of Bill Maher, the political satirist and host of Real Time with Bill Maher . When I first heard of Bill Maher, however, I wa...

As a railfan, I pay a lot of attention to train accidents. A particularly unfortunate and inexplicable accident happened in Valhalla, New Yo...

The Anglican Diocese of Pittsburgh has revamped its Web site . Its new incarnation is less cluttered, but I haven’t attempted to inventory e...

A couple of days ago, I had occasion to look for a curve-stitch design I made years ago. I had to search through files I had backed up but n...

With the beheading of the 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians by the so-called Islamic State, IS seems to be continuing its campaign  of offending...

Yesterday, February 13, was the day the church celebrates the life of Absalom Jones, the first black priest in The Episcopal Church. Jones w...

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...