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The Sci-Fi Christian’s Tricks and Treats for October 31, 2011

  • October 31, 2011
  • Tagged as: Claude Coats, comics, Disney, Disneyland Resort, Eddie Murphy, Halloween, Imagineering, Marc Davis, The Huanted Mansion, Theme Parks, Walt Disney, Walt Disney World Resort

When I was six, I had an unhappy run in with a haunted house that has forever created distaste in me for scary, scary rides and haunted houses.  The first time I went to Walt…

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Daniel
  • Sci-Fi

Doing Theology with the Bride of Frankenstein

  • October 30, 2011

“It’s the most theological movie ever made.” That was the surprising statement a minister friend made to me a few Halloweens ago. Honestly, I’d never stopped to wonder what film might claim that title, but…

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Mike
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SFC’s Halloween Tricks and Treats: October 30, 2011

  • October 30, 2011
  • Tagged as: Halloween

The day before Halloween is, unfortunately, an excuse to make mischief (or worse) in some places. The only mischief-makers you’ll find here are accomplished storytellers, interested only in playing pranks on our imagination… The Twilight…

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Mike
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SFC’s Halloween Tricks and Treats: October 29, 2011

  • October 29, 2011

Halloween and I have a complicated past. As a kid growing up in a Christian home, my family was one that believed it was best not to celebrate Halloween in the traditional sense. So still,…

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Dave
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SFC’s Halloween Tricks and Treats: October 28, 2011

  • October 28, 2011

There are two strong Halloween memories that resound in my mind. First, the church I attended when I was a kid had an annual “Fall Festival” (it just happened to involve candy and occurred on…

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Brady
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Toward a Theology for Trick-or-Treating: One Christian’s Perspective (Part 2 of 2)

  • October 28, 2011
  • Tagged as: Halloween

(You can find Part 1 here) Paul’s admonitions to the Corinthians offered a valuable starting point as I thought about whether and how Christians can celebrate Halloween. Like modern American culture, the culture of first-century Corinth…

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Mike
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SFC’s Halloween Tricks and Treats: October 27, 2011

  • October 27, 2011

To me, Halloween is a classical holiday; not in the spiritual sense of Christmas and Easter, or the familial sense of Thanksgiving, but in that it brings me back to childhood.  I’ve always loved a…

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Joshua
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SFC’s Halloween Tricks and Treats: October, 26 2011

  • October 26, 2011

Have any of you ever wondered how Halloween became such a popular holiday? Who came up with the idea of people dressing up in costumes for one night, knocking on a stranger’s door, and asking…

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max
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Trick-or-Treat This Week with The Sci-Fi Christian!

  • October 25, 2011
  • Tagged as: Halloween

With Halloween just around the corner… that cold, gloomy, silent, lonely corner… wait, what are you doing? No! No! Don’t go around that corner! Ahem. Halloween’s less than a week away, and The Sci-Fi Christian…

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Mike
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Toward a Theology for Trick-or-Treating: One Christian’s Perspective (Part 1 of 2)

  • October 24, 2011
  • Tagged as: Halloween

I first realized some Christians have a problem with Halloween when I wanted to go trick-or-treating dressed as the Devil. I don’t remember exactly what year that was. It had to have been later than…

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Mike
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