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Anti-Racism Resources
Inspired by the ELCA Social Statement Freed in Christ: Race, Ethnicity and Culture, we provide trainings and consultations with congregations to help all become aware of our own biases and ask God to help free us from them to become a community that faithfully reflects the diverse population of New Jersey.

            (updated July 1 2020)

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  • ELCA Social Statement

       Freed in Christ: Race, Ethnicity and Culture​

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          (Video available to borrow from the synod resource center)​

Celebrating leaders in our synod during Black History Month

Films on Racism

(Power Point Presentation)

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Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton's comments on race (2014)

Inoculating Against Hate

(produced by ELCA Racial Justice)

 https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1574812612669786

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“Our synod office is located on land which is part of the traditional territory of the Lenni-Lenape, called “Lenapehoking.” The Lenape People lived in harmony with one another upon this territory for thousands of years. During the colonial era and early federal period, many were removed west and north, but some also remain among the continuing historical tribal communities of the region: The Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation; the Ramapough Lenape Nation; and the Powhatan Renape Nation, The Nanticoke of Millsboro Delaware, and the Lenape of Cheswold Delaware. We acknowledge the Lenni-Lenape as the original people of this land and their continuing relationship with their territory. In our acknowledgment of the continued presence of Lenape people in their homeland, we affirm the aspiration of the great Lenape Chief Tamanend, that there be harmony between the indigenous people of this land and the descendants of the immigrants to this land, “as long as the rivers and creeks flow, and the sun, moon, and stars shine.”

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