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.
Holy Anger
Holy Anger “The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there. And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the...
ECO KID LIBRARY
Drum roll, please! [drum-drum-drum-roll-roll-roll] We are super excited to announce the joyful news of the launch of our awesome ECO KID LIBRARY. This one-of-a-kind collection of eco-centered books for children and youth is the brain-child of Eco-Justice team member...
Silent Witnesses to Terrible Injustices
“We can be silent witnesses to terrible injustices if we think that we can obtain significant benefits by making the rest of humanity, present and future, pay the extremely high costs of environmental deterioration.” ~ Pope Francis I’ve been following Earthbeat’s...
To Be, or Not To Be
“To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them.” They have been touted by scholars to be the most famous six words in...
Our Common Home
“…our common home is like a sister with whom we share our life and a beautiful mother who opens her arms to embrace us.” ~ Pope Francis Yesterday, May 10, marked the 106th observance of Mother's Day as a national holiday across America. Crass commercialism aside, at...
Ya Got Trouble!
Trouble, oh we got trouble, right here in River City! With a capital "T" that rhymes with "P"and that stands for P… In Meredith Wilson’s The Music Man, the sleepy little town of River City is woken up and thrown into a moral panic when Prof. Harold Hill comes to town...
Are We Really “All In This Together?”
In an earlier post from April 7 I commented briefly on a popular cliché that has become the go-to mantra of the current pandemic, “We’re all in this together.” Three weeks hence and a revealing set of data later, it has become clear that the message conveyed in this...
Earth Day Then and Now: the Rise and Fall of Environmental Protection
The COVID-19 pandemic is and has been the top breaking news story for many weeks, and will remain so for weeks (likely months) to come. Meanwhile, this week lying buried under the ever dominant news of the plague is the 50 year old news story of a ground breaking,...
Breathe on me, breath of God
Breathe on me, breath of God Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.” When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit…” [John 20:21-22] It’s Sunday evening, the end of the worst...
Integral Ecology – The World Wide Web of Life
“We’re all in this together.” We are seeing it plastered all over our TV screens in news broadcasts and commercial advertisements day after day, hour after hour. It’s the new mantra of a divided, distressed and diseased nation in the throes of an unrelenting,...
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
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Pittsboro NC 27312
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Tree Huggers United: The Grand Trees of Chatham
[Oops! This post was to have automatically appeared on Sunday, September 24, but no such luck. Apologies for its late arrival, but do make time to read about the good work of Grand Trees of Chatham. Better late than never!] "You know me, I think there ought to...
With a Little Help From My Friends – FLHRSNA
“I’ll get by with a little help from my friends” (the Beatles) Last week on the second Sunday of the Season of Creation Elaine Chiosso, E.D. of the Haw River Assembly, took the worshiping congregation of Pittsboro Presbyterian Church ‘down to the river’ as she...
The Voice of the River – Haw River Assembly
O sinners, let's go down Let's go down, come on down O sinners, let's go down Down in the river to pray. On the second Sunday of the Season of Creation the worshiping congregation of Pittsboro Presbyterian Church won’t actually go down to (or in) the river to pray as...
Let Justice and Peace Flow
“Let justice flow on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream” (Amos 5:24) Inspired by the familiar and challenging verse from Amos 5:24, the theme for the month-long 2023 Season of Creation is ‘Let Justice and Peace Flow’. On the first Sunday of the...
