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.
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...
Measuring up to the environmental justice challenge
"The opportunity for a gradual but complete break with our destructive environmental history and a new beginning is at hand.... We can measure up to the challenge if we have the will to do so — that is the only question. I am optimistic that this generation will have...
Tilling and Keeping the “Garden of Delight”
It is time to turn another page on the calendar. No fooling, it’s already April 1st. That means “springtime” has now been with us for well over a week. The first day of spring, the Vernal (new/fresh) Equinox (equal night) arrived in my part of the planet this year at...
Accenting JUSTICE within the Eco-Justice Blog
Ta Da! Drum roll, please! We have recently learned that our congregation has earned re-certification as a PC(U.S.A.) Earth Care Congregation (ECC) for 2021. To become and remain an ECC, congregations earn points each year in the areas of Worship, Education, Facilities...
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.
Pittsboro Presbyterian Church
95 East Street (physical address)
PO Box 713 (mailing address)
Pittsboro NC 27312
(919) 542-4702
Office Hours
Tuesdays 9-2pm*
Thursdays 9am-2pm*
Call ahead if you would like to meet the pastor or other staff outside of regular office hours.
*occasionally emergency visits or meetings away from church affect these hours.
Worship Service
Sunday 11am
Sunday School 10am
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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...
Lest We Forget
“We should guard their graves with sacred vigilance. ... Let no neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten as a people the cost of a free and undivided republic.” ~ Maj. Gen. John A. Logan It was an...
Seeing the Forest for the Trees
“The death of the forest is the end of our life.” ~ Sister Dorothy Stang Today is national Arbor Day. So take a deep breath. Hold it, and take a moment to think about where that life-giving oxygen came from. Then as you exhale carbon dioxide, give thanks for the...
The Gospel of Love & Grace vs The Gospel of Hate & Fear
"I have decided to stick with love...hate is too great a burden to bear." ~Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. It is rare that posts on this blog appear but a couple of days apart. However, a coincidence of two very different events that took place this week on January 15...
