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.
JOY IN THE MORNING
“Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.” ~ Psalm 30:5 There is no shortage of joy-filled, heart-warming, up-beat and down-right tear-jerking moments to take away and treasure from the recently concluded Democratic National Convention (DNC). Held...
True North: Setting the nation’s moral compass
"It is substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule indeed extends with more or less force to every species of free government. Who that is a sincere friend to it can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the...
Will the real GOAT please stand up
“I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.” ~ George Washington With infinite fortitude and relentless dedication, he accomplished what should have been an impossible mission. He...
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...
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...
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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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...
