Grace Von Allure
High Priestess & Founder
Grace Von Allure is the founder of The Church of the Holy and a lifelong student of human nature, community, and the stories we tell to make sense of our lives.
Raised Southern Baptist, Grace spent much of her life believing that religion required belief in a distant, masculine God. After working through complex trauma and years of volunteering in her community, she came to a different realization: belief is one of humanity’s oldest tools for bringing people together, caring for one another, and transforming shared values into collective action.
She had always felt a profound reverence for the living world—for the forests, oceans, seasons, and the intricate web of life we all depend upon—but had never imagined that this relationship could itself be sacred. Through years of studying mythology, philosophy, psychology, history, and the natural sciences, she began building a framework that honored both scientific inquiry and symbolic meaning without requiring either to diminish the other.
The Church of the Holy grew from that work.
Grace founded the Church not to ask people to abandon their traditions, but to create a community rooted in unconditional love, curiosity, stewardship, and practical service. She believes that healthy communities are built not only through shared beliefs, but through shared responsibility—feeding one another, caring for the vulnerable, celebrating life’s passages, and meeting suffering with tangible action.
Her hope is simple: to help build a world where every person knows they are worthy of love, every community becomes more resilient, and no one has to face life’s greatest joys or greatest hardships alone.