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.
Earth Care Champions: Friends of the Lower Haw River State Natural Area
To find the second worthy organization in our ‘Earth Care Champions’ series, we’re going down by the riverside once again. A close ally of our first honoree, the Haw River Assembly, is an all-volunteer group of citizens dedicated to supporting the Lower Haw River...
YOUR evangelism IS TOO small
What in God’s green earth does Christian ‘evangelism’ have to do with creation justice? And why, when there is so much else to tackle in this time of climate crisis, pestilence, social upheaval, culture wars and rumors of war is ‘evangelism’ the subject of this...
Earth Care Champions: Haw River Assembly
“Rivers flow not past, but through us; tingling, vibrating, exciting every cell and fiber in our bodies, making them sing and glide.“ - John Muir As a young boy, before I ever experienced romantic feelings for a girl (or even knew I someday would), I had a love affair...
Envisioning & Investing in a Green Future (Renewed Creation)
“If you don't know where you are going, you might not get there.” Those are both humorous and sage words emanating from the cornucopia of quotes and quips that the former New York Yankee catcher and manager, Yogi Berra, imbued us with during his colorful career. The...
EARTH EMERGENCY
If I had my ‘druthers’ at the start of a new year of Creation Justice blogging… I ‘druther’ be spinning tales about the great progress humanity has made over the past year/s in turning our Mother-ship Earth around from the chaotic climate course we’ve set her on. I...
The Winter (Solstice) of Our Discontent, & Here Comes the Sun
“It’s the most wonderful time of the year!” The title of that old Holiday favorite crooned by Andy Williams rings true for me today, but not for any of the reasons expounded in the lyrics. For me the most wonderful time of the year rang in at exactly 10:59 EST this...
Tipping the scales for the common good
My telephone rang yesterday morning, and as is my habit, I checked the caller ID before answering. The screen revealed that the call originated from Glasgow. What?! My heart skipped a beat. My eyes and ears had been on Glasgow and the United Nations Climate Summit...
If I had a hammer…
On the eve of All Saints Day (a.k.a. ‘All Hallows Eve’ or ‘Halloween’) in 1517 an obscure German parish priest and professor of theology at the University of Wittenberg was busily rummaging through a carpenter’s tool box in search of a hammer. He had just finished...
So long ‘Eco-Justice’ & Hello ‘Creation Justice’
What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet... ~ Romeo & Juliet – Act II Scene II What’s in a name? The phrase 'A rose by any other name would smell as sweet' implies that things are what they are, no matter what name you...
To Tell the TRUTH – so help us, God!
“May God, working through each of us, save the United States of America.” ~ A. King – 10/19/2021 Without theatrical bombast or oratorical ostentation, but with measured yet moving rhetoric, a King yesterday argued against monarchy and autocracy and for saving...
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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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...
