Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

We used to talk about gays. Then it was gays and lesbians. At some point, we switched to using abbreviations. For a long time, the most comm...

My friend Tobias Haller has written one of the more insightful descriptions of what happened in the Anglican Communion recently. Permit me t...

Regular readers will recall that I complained to the BBC about the use of the term “Anglican Church” where “Anglican Communion” is meant. (S...

Today, my friend and fellow PEP (Progressive Episcopalians of Pittsburgh) member Diane Shepard sent the message below to the PEP e-mail lis...

One day before the official end of the current meeting of the Anglican primates at Canterbury, the result of the primates’ deliberations h...

The BBC rather consistently uses the term “Anglican Church” when what is meant is the Anglican Communion. This has bothered me for a long t...

All things being equal, tomorrow, January 11, 2016, the 38 primates of the Anglican Communion will meet at Lambeth Palace to consider variou...

Click for larger image Source of quotation: http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/2016/01/07/trump-campaign-lumbers-into-v...

I have been watching the Showtime documentary “ The Spymasters: CIA in the Crosshairs ,” in which all 12 living CIA directors and others op...

I wrote the letter below to the new presiding bishop last month out of concern for what might happen at the Primates’ Meeting in January. W...

Bob Duncan, the bishop of ACNA’s Anglican Diocese of Pittsburgh, recently sent out a fund-raising letter.  (A PDF version of the letter is...

I have been eagerly awaiting news reports about the motives of the man who attacked a Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado Springs Friday...

The daily fantasy sports sites FanDuel and DraftKings (and similar, less advertised sites) have quickly become big business. It is a busines...

Builder’s photo of W&LE 6401 (Click on photo for a larger image) Above my desk is a framed builder’s photo of a Wheeling & Lake...

Fever-Tree ginger beer and Bombay Sapphire gin I recently discovered that a local supermarket has several brands of very good ginger bee...

Tonight, with less fanfare than we have seen for previous presidential debates, MSNBC hosted a “Democratic Candidates Format.” The candidate...

I did not watch the installation of Michael Curry as Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church; I was in church at the time. (The timing of t...

I’ve been watching the latest Republican presidential debates. I didn’t watch the debates live because I wanted to see the PBS  Nature  prog...

A three-week synod has convened in the Vatican to reconsider how the Roman Catholic Church deals with family issues. The official theme of t...

I was taken aback Friday when I received the weekly newsletter from the American Anglican Council. (For those unfamiliar with the AAC , I sh...