CREATION JUSTICE BLOG
Pittsboro Presbyterian Church
WELCOME to the Creation Justice blog, managed by the Creation Justice Team of Pittsboro Presbyterian Church. We are a small group with a BIG concern about the fate of all God’s creatures, great and small, in this new era of human domination of our common home, planet Earth.
If I had a hammer…
On the eve of All Saints Day (a.k.a. ‘All Hallows Eve’ or ‘Halloween’) in 1517 an obscure German parish priest and professor of theology at the University of Wittenberg was busily rummaging through a carpenter’s tool box in search of a hammer. He had just finished...
So long ‘Eco-Justice’ & Hello ‘Creation Justice’
What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet... ~ Romeo & Juliet – Act II Scene II What’s in a name? The phrase 'A rose by any other name would smell as sweet' implies that things are what they are, no matter what name you...
To Tell the TRUTH – so help us, God!
“May God, working through each of us, save the United States of America.” ~ A. King – 10/19/2021 Without theatrical bombast or oratorical ostentation, but with measured yet moving rhetoric, a King yesterday argued against monarchy and autocracy and for saving...
9/11 then & now: Coming together and tearing apart
Take a stroll down the sidewalk along the west side of Chatham County’s Justice Center in Pittsboro, NC and you’ll walk back into a somber place of American history marked by unimaginable horror and mind-numbing shock and awe. There on a small plot of ground 444 miles...
Out of the woods – with H.D. Thoreau
It strikes me as an odd coincidence that this day, September 6, the observance of Labor Day, is also the very same day that in 1847 Henry David Thoreau packed up his meager belongings and bade his woodland cabin next to Walden Pond a fond adieu. The oddity of this...
CODE RED – Part II: Responding responsibly to the IPCC 6th climate assessment report
My eldest daughter and family +1 guest recently returned from an idyllic adventure to one of the more breathtakingly beautiful and unique places on the planet. Known as the “Land of Fire and Ice,” Iceland with its ample combination of both volcanoes and glaciers...
CODE RED: United Nations IPCC releases blistering climate crisis report
The first of a trilogy of climate reports to be concluded in 2022 was released recently (August 9) in advance of the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) to be held in Glasgow on October 31 – November 12 2021. (See the press release of the report...
The Sham Slam on Critical Race Theory (CRT): A Dodge from Truth and Reconciliation
It’s time once again to color outside the lines of our Eco-justice theme to address another “critical” matter that’s making local and national headlines. For as MLK Jr. reminded us, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Let’s begin by defining terms...
Jump-starting Laudato Si: On Care for Our Common Home
The most profound statement that the Christian Church has made over the past decade regarding the global eco-justice crisis facing humanity is Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical, Laudato Si: On Care for Our Common Home. But a papal statement, no matter how profound,...
Listen to your Mother: Use your outside voice – Later is too late
In the existential battle of our lifetime, sparing all living things from the worse case scenario of unfettered global warming, some of the fiercest and most passionate front line warriors are none other than… Mothers. On the observance of Mothers' Day 2021, today's...
WELCOME to our Creation Justice blog managed by the Creation Justice Team of Pittsboro Presbyterian Church. We’re a small group with a BIG concern about the fate of all God’s creatures, great and small, in this new era of human domination of our common home, planet Earth.
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MY STRUGGLE
“The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.” ~ Adolph Hitler Nearly a century ago on July 18, 1925 a book that was written in prison by a distraught and disturbed ego-maniac convicted of treason for an attempted coup in Bavaria two years earlier was...
Guardian of the Law?
On either side of the main steps of the Supreme Court building are seated marble figures. On the left is a female figure, the Contemplation of Justice. On the right is a male figure, the Guardian or Authority of Law. However, personal improprieties and mind-boggling...
July 1, 2024: Another “Date That Will Live In Infamy”
“Under our constitutional structure of separated powers, the nature of presidential power entitles a former president to absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions within his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority.” Chief Justice John Roberts...
Juneteenth: America’s Second Independence Day
As a member of the Grand Trees of Chatham (GTOC) Board of Directors, I am the creator of the annual Naturally Chatham photo calendar, a fund raiser for GTOC highlighting the natural beauty and diversity of Chatham County’s natural amenities. I just picked up the draft...
