Eco-Justice Blog
Pittsboro Presbyterian Church
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,...
Here’s to your HEALTH!
It's a whole new game Humanity is now in the throes of a whole new ballgame played with a strict set of rules and survival as the end-game. Think of it as “viral dodge ball.” This is a game of the survival of the fittest. In the midst of a global pandemic, the...
NOT Business as Usual
CLOSED! CANCELED! SHUT DOWN! We are living in interesting times! And these are the signs of the times. It is an eerie, unsettling time unlike any this current edition of humanity has confronted. It is a disturbing, disruptive, daunting and down right deadly time in...
The Fierce Urgency of Now
We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there 'is' such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous...
Christmas reveals the Creator’s will for this world
Christmas reveals the Creator’s will for this world 1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In...
The Word and Person of 2019: A Win-Win for Eco-Justice
At the end of each calendar year the Oxford Dictionary and TIME magazine reveal their choice for Word and Person of the Year. Typically the two have nothing in common with one another. Not so this year. If we didn’t know otherwise, we could imagine that the two...
From Climate Change to CLIMATE CRISIS!
Forget about “Climate Change.” Not the problem, but the term. It’s old hat, outdated and far too “vanilla” to paint the true picture of the critical state of planet Earth’s current and future climate. (Click here for a one minute podcast from NC Policy watch on this...
WELCOME to our Eco-Justice blog managed by the Eco-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.
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