Perryville Pastimes

If we do our best to practice the love Christ told us to, how do we do so without hurting others? Those whose unrighteous acts were driven b...

We decided last fall to study the general letters of the new testament. In a paroxysm of glibness, I suppose, the class wanted to pursue the...

In between showers yesterday I was out in the yard. The mushrooms have given way to other, more unusual fungi like devil's cigars and ro...

The rain continues daily around here. Each morning I expect to see mango trees growing outside my window and monkeys swinging through them. ...

The photo at right is one taken by Tom Lovett on a fishing expedition in the late 1950's. I really like the way it shows the recreation...

When I returned to freshwater fishing this year one of the lessons my instructor (JP) taught me in his Friday evening classes was the use of...

Thanks to Gavin at Hit the Back etc... quoting John Wesley and Locust & Honey 's "An Outsider Perspective", what Wesleyan...

Our community's summer festival is wrapping up today, starting with the big parade down main street. It is a real joy to see everyone ou...

Since coming here I have heard several different versions of why the city of Elgin is mispronounced with the hard g as in get rather than ...

Rain is falling hard, a dark, loud thunderstorm is rolling over. A good time to catch up. At Locust and Honey yesterday there was a story ab...

Check out 21st Century Reformation, "Meekness. . ." here . By Jove, I think he's got it! Then, Reverend Phelps continues her...

I rose early, well before daylight, so I could be at the drop off just at sunrise. The tide & solunar tables suggested that would be the...

It has been an interesting day. I tested for a little job and lo and behold the test was on a spreadsheet I had created back in 1994 or 95. ...

What a spring, I have had several inches of rain here since Sunday night. This after the wettest spring even old-timers can recall. It is wo...

Gerry Charlotte Phelps laments the postmodern United States Methodist bishop's efforts to prevent the more orthodox Southern church havi...

Went out yesterday evening, fishing under that big "blue" moon and had a good outing. We caught and released a number of really go...