We're All In This Together: Not Ordinary Devotions

Rev. Allyson Sawtell (she/her) is a retired UCC clergyperson, part-time rabble-rouser, and a volunteer in a progressive United Church of Christ congregation in the unceded lands of the Ute, Arapaho, and Cheyenne (Denver, Colorado).A graduate of Andover Newton Theological School formerly in the Boston area (Massachusetts tribe), she served as co-pastor with her spouse in churches in rural and small-city Iowa, worked in various faith-based social service nonprofits in Denver, as well as in a youth and vocation program at a local seminary. She writes liturgies and poetry for her website Not Ordinary Church (allyson.revsawtell.org). She and her spouse are the proud parents of a young-adult son, who also lives in Denver."I am a person with deep passions, callings, pullings-at-my-spirit that I can't ignore. I am passionate about care for and with Creation, about racial and gender/orientation inequality and justice. And about our connectedness to each other and all things. I believe that life is hot-wired for community, for connection. And we humans have forgotten that, and we are destroying ourselves and "our common home" as a result. And because I feel so strongly about these things, I find myself called to write, to help us return to that sense of community, to help us look at ourselves and the world in a different way."