Welcome. I’m glad you’ve found your way here.

Human Together features conversations on the communal life. Through essays and podcast episodes, we explore what it means to be people who agree it is not good to be alone (but secretly wonder whether it would be easier). It is for we who waver between longing and belonging, intimacy and isolation, making plans and then breaking them. This is a space where we ask:

  • What does it mean to be human?

  • And how can we be a little more human together?

Because we are crafted for more than life at the surface, and we want to find deep and sustainable ways of relating to God and each other, right in the midst of our everyday lives.

Hey there. I’m Sarah.

I created Human Together because I’ve held deep questions about belonging since I could spell my own name. While my career has been community-building in classrooms, colleges campuses, and creative spaces, I recognize that being able to connect in meaningful ways is not easy. It often shifts as we change or people change or pandemics sweep across the globe.

But in its simplest form, a communal life is a shared life, and what we do here at Human Together is look for the ways we overlap by embracing curiosity, asking questions, cultivating compassion, and listening with the desire to expand in our love for God and each other.


What to Expect

You do not have to have any certain set of beliefs or ideas to be here. I hope we can have respectful discourse across great differences as we create room for one another. However, I do not want you to be surprised to find that I write and speak about the communal life from the perspective that life with God and each other are woven together.

From essays to podcast episodes, you can expect most of what you find here to be highly narrative, contemplative, and conversational. I also share personal updates and book news from time to time.

As a free subscriber, you’ll get most essays and podcast episodes (you can also listen on Apple, Spotify, or another preferred platform), but by upgrading to a paid subscription, you help support the podcast (keeping it ad-free) and gain access to extended episodes of the Human Together podcast (with extra guest questions/conversation), book club, and essay series.

Note: If you can’t swing a paid subscription but would love to join, just email me at sarah@sarahewestfall.com. We’ll work it out, no questions asked.

I invite you to interact. Ask questions. Raise a hand. Be an actual human person. But most of all, I hope you take what you find here and look for ways to embrace a communal life right where you are. I’m really glad you’re here.


To find out more about me (including my book The Way of Belonging: Reimagining Who We Are and How We Relate coming in June 2024), visit my author website: sarahewestfall.com.

To find out more about the company that provides the tech for this newsletter, visit Substack.com.

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an exploration of the communal life (that often-complex intersection of faith, belonging, and being a person)