Chris Townley
christownley.bsky.social
Chris Townley
@christownley.bsky.social
🌲: I am a tree... rooted and growing slow.
📍: Upper Rio Grande Watershed
🙏🏼: @kaleophx + @blksouth
✍🏼: Nature + Justice + Theology
https://christownley.substack.com/
My relationship with a typewriter begins today…
November 26, 2024 at 4:21 PM
Wrote about Zoom calls with strangers, spiritual secrecy, and experiencing God in nature. Tap in, if you're so inclined :) open.substack.com/pub/christow...
Zoom Chat Conundrum
...a chat box on a Zoom call dotted with strangers was no place for such a divine memory to live.
open.substack.com
November 19, 2024 at 1:57 PM
I feel most petty, but also giddy, when celebrating the losses of my enemies’ sports teams. 😂
November 17, 2024 at 5:09 PM
I’m participating in a “Christian Climate Training” today and everyone seems to be affiliated with a denomination… I guess claiming to be an Indigi-Ana-Blacktivisit is apparently a bit of a unicorn because I didn’t have a group during the breakouts. 🤪🤣
November 16, 2024 at 7:47 PM
1/4 Below is my word, to my White siblings, merging messages from Lilla Watson and Rev. Osagyefo Sekou, with a sprinkle of Howard Thurman and Randy Woodley. This is my initial response to thinking through the work in the days ahead:
November 15, 2024 at 4:40 PM
Reposted by Chris Townley
“The question is not whether we will be extremist but what kind of extremist will we be. Will we be extremists for hate or will we be extremists for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice-or will we be extremists for the cause of justice?”

-MLK
November 15, 2024 at 12:03 AM
Writing set up comes with a friend ❤️
November 15, 2024 at 12:46 AM
... what lies ahead for those who seek to embody the way of “doing justice, loving mercy, and walking humbly with God?”

christownley.substack.com/p/a-reflecti...
A Reflection for BLK South: A Radical Practice of the Everyday
... what lies ahead for those who seek to embody the way of “doing justice, loving mercy, and walking humbly with God?”
christownley.substack.com
November 14, 2024 at 4:56 PM
Reposted by Chris Townley
There are times when I hate being right. If you don't already, find yourself a community that concretely practices mutual liberation and love. We need each other. The storm is coming.
November 13, 2024 at 8:55 PM