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.
America needs an EPIPHANY
At Pittsboro Presbyterian Church one of the highlights of weekly worship is what we refer to as “glimpses of God.” The Pastor invites congregants to share any experience they may have had during the prior week in which they have perceived God at work in their lives....
TRUTH or Consequences!
Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. ~John Keats “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” ~ John 8:32 If truth is synonymous with beauty as the poet asserts, then falsehood is akin to ugliness. If...
As Time Goes By
"I know what time is until you ask me for a definition about it, and then I can't give it to you." ~ Saint Augustine “What time is it?” That’s a question I ask myself often in the span of a day. "What is time?” That’s a question that seldom, if ever, gets asked and...
Where do we — as a country and a church — go from here?
Today is November 4. Circle the date on your calendar. One year ago today Donald Trump moved to withdraw America, the 2nd highest green house gas emitter on the planet, from the landmark Paris Climate Accord. Today, as Lisa Friedman in a NY Times article reminds us,...
A Reformation Protest Against Christian Nationalism
October 31, 2020, is Reformation Day. On this day throughout Christendom followers of Christ Jesus all around the world are called upon to remember an historical event that rocked the Christian world and changed the course of western civilization. It was on...
The Foul and Unjust ‘Stamp’ of Approval on Voter Suppression
It was July 26, 1775 when the U.S. postal system was established by the Second Continental Congress, with Benjamin Franklin as its first postmaster general. It was Franklin who put in place the foundation for many aspects of today's mail system. It was also an astute...
“On we go—“
Those are the three words that conclude Bill McKibben’s “swan song” (of sorts) to his colleagues at 350.org and his friends throughout the broader climate justice movement, “On we go…” Today is a date to be circled on this nation’s environmental calendar (if we had...
Confessing America’s Original Sin
“Last week, a black professor told me he always asks his white students if they have ever heard racism called a sin in the pulpits of their churches growing up. The answer is almost always no.” ~Jim Wallis Consider this to be a continuation, Part II of the previous...
Independence Day 2020: Ideals Espoused vs Realities Lived
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” [Opening lines of the Preamble to the Declaration of...
Understanding White Privilege = Understanding Amy Cooper
In this Eco-Justice blog space we occasionally ‘color outside the lines’ to address other Justice issues because our integral theology informs us that everything is interrelated/interconnected. This is one of those occasions. Today we’ll choose just two crayons to...
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*
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*occasionally emergency visits or meetings away from church affect these hours.
Worship Service
Sunday 11am
Sunday School 10am
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Looking back is a way of looking forward
"Looking back is a way of looking forward.” ~ Scott Wing – Paleontologist, and Curator of Fossil Plants at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution The month of January gets its name from Janus, the two-faced god of the ancient Roman...
COP 28 and the UAE Consensus: What to make of it all
“The atmosphere responds to one thing: Emissions. It’s physics, stupid… And all the declarations, all the decisions, all the platitudes, all the announcements in the world, if it doesn’t translate into real world action that reduces emissions, is not worth the paper...
The Planet Needs a Shot in the Arm
“When you have your health, you have everything. When you do not have your health, nothing else matters at all." ~ Augustin Burroughs. The older I get, the more I agree with the sage observation of Augustin Burroughs, “When you have your health, you have everything…”...
Worshiping and Walking in the Wild
Those of us who are a bit ‘nerdy’ about the Church’s liturgical calendar will recognize today, October 4, as the Feast of Saint Francis, the patron Saint of the environment and animals. It is a fitting marker to conclude the month long emphasis of the ‘Season of...
