Unsettling Worship: Reforming Liturgy for Right Relations with Indigenous Communities

by Sarah Travis

Settler churches across North America have committed to the work of conciliation and reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples. Worship is a space in which these commitments are expressed and nurtured. As we are embraced by God's reconciling love in worship, we are equipped to carry that reconciling love into our relationships beyond the worship space. Worship equips us for the work of conciliation, but the liturgy itself needs to be decolonized if it is to truly honor Christian commitments to God and neighbor. This book explores the reformed liturgy in its pattern of Gathering, Word, Table, and Sending, searching it both for colonial vestiges, and spaces of new possibility. Unsettling Worship invites the reader into a conversation about reformed worship in a setting of ongoing colonization. Worship should both unsettle us, and equip us for the essential work of making things right with Indigenous neighbors.

Genres: Indigenous

150 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 5, 2023

Reviews

[Rosanne V · Rating 5 out of 5]

"How to" toward creating right relationships

This book is based on Christian worship which is still a dominant faith in the Western world.

Dr. Travis eloquently challenges current Western "norms" with how humanity should be living with one another when we truly understand what being in "right relationship" really is.

This is a must read for anyone. We should all be seeking right relationship with our fellow Indigenous humans.