Eco-Justice Blog
Pittsboro Presbyterian Church
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...
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...
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