Unsettling Worship: Reforming Liturgy for Right Relations with Indigenous Communities - Paperback

by Sarah Travis (Author)

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.

Author Biography

Sarah Travis is the Assistant Professor of Preaching, Worship and Christian Ministry at Knox College, University of Toronto. She is an ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church in Canada and the author of Decolonizing Preaching (2014) and Unspeakable (2021).