A 6-week journey of truth-telling, healing, and restorative solidarity
Unsettling Our Faith, created for the BeADisciple Study App, is a six-week study that helps groups explore how we can decolonize our Christian discipleship through Scripture, Indigenous wisdom, and embodied practices. Designed for youth leaders and students to learn side-by-side, this experience centers truth-telling, restorative solidarity, and practical steps toward justice—without requiring prior expertise.
This study will be available on the app soon!
$18 for leaders (lifetime use) | $12 for participants (one-time use)
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What's included?
The content contains everything needed to guide a group through the six-week study, including session plans, videos (including transcripts), and discussion questions. An orientation meeting before the study begins gives participants all the tools and confidence they need to participate in this app-based study. With the required orientation, your group will meet seven times.
All content is accessible via the state-of-the-art BeADisciple Study App, entirely accessible on your smart phone, tablet, or computer. You won’t have any physical study materials to keep track of!
In every session, you hear from Native/Indigenous voices and with carefully chosen biblical passages, paired with concrete practices that honor Indigenous communities and the land.
This study draws on respected Indigenous theologians, historians, and practitioners—inviting learners to listen, lament, and take hopeful steps toward repair.
Session overviews:
The Power of Storytelling
(with themes of healing, resilience, liberation, and new narratives)
This week’s session invites participants to explore and understand how storytelling shapes our identity, faith, and relationships, helping us heal, connect, and inspire change.
Engaging with Landlines
(with themes of land, Sabbath, justice, reconciliation, and restoration)
This week’s session invites participants to deepen their connection to the land, reflecting on its spiritual significance and exploring Indigenous perspectives. The goal is to understand how our relationship with the land impacts our faith and our actions toward justice.
Understanding Settler Colonialism & Its Impact on Faith
This week, participants explore settler colonialism, its historical context, and its ongoing impacts on Indigenous communities. Learners reflect on biblical themes of liberation, land, justice, and the mission of proclaiming good news.
Understanding Inevitable Backlash
(with themes of persecution, resilience, and living into hope)
This week, participants explore the theme of inevitable backlash encountered when pursuing justice and decolonization.
Decolonizing Theology & Practice
(with themes of service, true fasting, and humility)
This week’s focus is on exploring how our faith and actions can be decolonized—aligning closer with biblical justice. We’ll discuss unity in diversity, true fasting, serving marginalized communities, faith in action, and humility.
Cultivating a Just Future
(with themes of bridge-building, empowered voices, and sustained action)
This week, we explore how to cultivate a just and equitable future by focusing on our vision for the future, building bridges of understanding, empowering marginalized voices, and taking practical steps towards sustaining justice. We reflect deeply on biblical themes that encourage us to persevere and work collaboratively toward long-term equity and peace.
Time commitments for this study:
- 15–25 minutes of guided daily learning (read/listen options), including a brief Scripture engagement and accessible commentary, a weekly short video intro, a centering prayer, and a somatic body check-in
- A short reading from an Indigenous or decolonial “Conversation Partner.”
- Reflection prompts (with “Going Deeper” options leaders can use with youth).
- Participation in group discussion threads in the app.
- A 60 minute weekly gathering (in person or virtual) using a ready-to-lead guide.
Why do this study on the app?
The BeADisciple Study App opens a whole new world of possibilities in small-group life, all with trusted content and 24/7 connectivity.
UnSettling Our Faith is written for youth but can be a powerful learning experience for adults, as well. Reach down the block or around the world to offer Christian fellowship alongside:
- Business travelers
- Stay-at-home parents
- Shift workers
- Mission partners
- High school or college friends
- Family members
- Isolated rural residents
- People without a church home
- International friends
- Homebound residents
- Snowbirds
- Frequent travelers
All study materials are included:
- All study content for UnSettling Our Faith, along with leader guides and accompanying videos
- The entire CEB Bible for scripture reference
- The ability to set reminders on your phone or tablet to help you remember to do your daily readings.
- Take notes in the app right alongside the content
- Personalized Meeting Guides automatically compiled from your notes
Community-building features:
- 24/7 message and prayer boards to help you communicate with your study group.
- A roster of other members of your group, to help you get to know one another.
- Easily join your group Zoom meeting with the click of a button, no sign-in required
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