LCGS Towards Racial Justice Group

Good Shepherd is in the house! An Evening of Music and Art with Gerry McCritty at the PAVAA Gallery

As you are getting your home ready for Halloween, please bear in mind...

Any "decorations" that show h@n9in9 are inappropriate in a society committed to loving your neighbor. Please consider the extent to which they look like the scene of a lynching and how that might impact Black and brown families in your neighborhood.

An alternative is to hang a ghost from invisible fishing line. This gives the ghost a more ethereal sense without creating a potentially triggering display.

Thank you for your consideration.

Click the article below for helpful context. (T.W.: GRAPHIC PHOTOS AND UPSETTING EXAMPLES OF ACTUAL OCCURRENCES OF LYNCHING are contained in this article.)

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A History of Racism: Understanding how White Americans used lynchings to control Black people | Milwaukee Independent A History of Racism: Understanding how White Americans used lynchings to control Black people Posted by TheGuardian | Oct 23, 2020 | The City of Milwaukee has one documented case of a lynching, involving George Marshall Clark in 1861. For the following 14 years until 1875, eight lynchings took place...

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🌽🍎🌽 Come on out tomorrow, Saturday, October 3rd, 10am-3pm and JOIN US for the annual Maize & Snitz Festival!

🌽🍎🌽Visit Lancaster Longhouse during the festival for special demonstrations as well as Native artists, performers, vendors, and historians, including a special presentation by our Reckoning with Lancaster Summer Scholars.

🌽🍎🌽 1719 Museum
1849 Hans Herr Drive
Willow Street, PA 17584 United States
BUY YOUR TICKETS HERE: https://mennonitelife.org/event/maize-snitz-fest-2026/

More opportunities for learning...the Reckoning With Lancaster project:

Reckoning with Lancaster A community engagement project at Franklin & Marshall College exploring indigeneity, settler colonialism, and the land question. Reckoning with Lancaster WHY RECKONING? WHY NOW? Our project explores Indigenous community and settler colonialism in a context of erasure—a region and state that has no...

Here is a "Decolonization" reading list...

"Decolonial" reading list - Analu Lopez “What is Decolonization? If settler colonialism is the elimination of the Native, decolonization is the structural and legal elimination of settler privilege and settler domination.” – Dr. Nick Estes “Representation alone cannot solve the problem of white privilege in LIS any more than (self...

If you are interested in learning more about the plight of Indigenous peoples in America, Franklin and Marshall College has some great resources.

Here is a link to a variety of podcasts:

LibGuides: Native & Indigenous Resources at F&M: Online Resources LibGuides: Native & Indigenous Resources at F&M: Online Resources

Truth must come before reconciliation . Several of us from LCGS attended the Truth & Reconciliation observation at F&M. We heard heart wrenching stories about children torn from families over decades all across the US. As a Church, we have a responsibility to confront and confess our complicity in the ongoing systems of oppression.

Join us in praying for all those families torn apart, and the healing that our participation can help to bring about.

Meet us this Wednesday, September 30 at 4:30 at F&M for this Truth & Reconciliation event sponsored by the Circle Legacy Center. Let us know in the comments below if you are planning to attend and we'll look for you!