Bio
Allen is the Pastor of The Church of Reconciliation in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a historic congregation founded to address race equity at the height of the civil rights movement. Prior to serving ‘The Rec,’ Allen was the Co-Planter and Pastor of Farm Church, a congregation that meets on a farm and leverages the resources of the farm to address food insecurity in Durham, NC. He is also a co-founder of Bluestem Community, which is dedicated to nourishing ecological stewardship, community service, and spiritual practice in shared fellowship while operating a conservation burial ground for green burials in Orange County, North Carolina. Finally, Allen is the senior Religious Studies faculty member at Somerset Community College in Somerset, Kentucky, where he teaches the world’s religions as well as Old and New Testament. He holds degrees from the University of Tennessee and McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago.
