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.
Year One of the “Golden Age of America” (aka 12 months of Project 2025)
“The golden age of America begins right now.” - D.J. Trump, January 20, 2025 January 20 marks the one year anniversary of life under the Trump regime guided by the playbook of Project 2025. It is a day to look back on promises made under the guise of divine fiat and...
The ICE Men Cometh (with apologies to Eugene O’Neil)
“Do you know how many shootings we’ve had so far this year? Two, and one of them was ICE”. - Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey This weekend, after an ICE agent had shot and killed Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis earlier in the week, the collective outrage of millions of...
A rogue nation’s feigned justice, and the explosive dawn of the “Donroe Doctrine”
"They took our oil rights — we had a lot of oil there. As you know they threw our companies out, and we want it back." - Donald Trump, December 17, 2025 “And the Monroe Doctrine is a big deal, but we've superseded it by a lot, by a real lot. They now call it the...
Choosing Life in an Age of Ecocide
“See, I have set before you today life and prosperity, death and adversity. If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I am commanding you today, by loving the Lord your God, walking in his ways, and observing his commandments, decrees, and ordinances,...
American Fascism: The Death of “Truth, Justice and the American Way”
“Fascism doesn’t need to show up looking like the History Channel: swastikas, stiff-armed salutes, and jackboots marching down Main Street. Contemporary fascism, here and abroad, wears their Sunday best and clutches a Trump Bible.” - Rachel Bitecofer The “blockbuster”...
Yet Another Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Leviticus 19:18, 33-34 & Luke 10:25-37 “Saints are ordinary people who do what they do for the love of Jesus, say what they must say without fear, love their neighbor even when they are cursed by him, and live without regret over yesterday or fear of tomorrow.” -...
Cruella de Bill
“I think Cruella basically has no redeeming human characteristics...” - Glenn Close as Cruella de Vil in a 1966 Vanity Fair interview Today in America is a day to speak of villainy and cruelty. Let’s begin with the fictional as a way to reflect upon the factual. In...
The lenses, filters and presets through which we see the world
"My dad is amazing! I love you and I’m proud of you!” - Sarah Huckabee Sanders Last week the Governor of Arkansas took to her X (formerly Twitter) account to inform her father, Mike Huckabee, (and her 2.3 million followers) of her pride and affection for him. My own...
The BIG, BAD, ABOMINABLE MAGA Budget Bill
“Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you...
Resisting and Persisting – Standing Up and Speaking Out
“Proclaim the message; be persistent whether the time is favorable or unfavorable; convince, rebuke, and encourage with the utmost patience in teaching.”- 2 Timothy 4:2 "For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind." - 2...
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
Need Help?
SMS Texting Opt In
© Copyright 2022 Pittsboro Presbyterian Church
Hello, Goodbye: The Cancel-ebration of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
May 21, 2026, was the very last time the in-person and on-line audience of late night TV heard the familiar words that had greeted us for the past 11 years, “Welcome. Welcome one and all, in here and out there to the Late Show. I am your host, Stephen Colbert.” In...
Tarnished Olympic Gold
"Citius, Altius, Fortius - Communiter" : "Faster, Higher, Stronger – Together" - Current Olympic motto adopted in 2021 to emphasize solidarity during challenging times It is a long distance and many decades away from a 2026 locker room in Milan, Italy to a 1963 jail...
Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
“I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.” - Psalm 139:14 It is Ash Wednesday in the year of our Lord 2026, the beginning of the 40 day observance of Lent. What a time to be alive as a citizen of the...
The Lord’s Case Against Israel: Micah 6:1-8
Justice. Mercy. Humility. Do. Love. Walk. Over the seven years that I have been hosting this Creation Justice blog, the scripture verse that has appeared far more than any other is Micah 6:8. I think of it as a six word formula for living the good life: do justice,...
