Unsettling Worship

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.

About the author

Sarah Travis is associate professor at Knox College, University of Toronto, in the Ewart Chair in the Practice of Ministry and Faith Formation.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Travis
• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2023
• EAN: 9781666746617
• ISBN: 978-1-66674-661-7
• No. of pages: 150
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 228 g
• Series: Worship and Witness
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works