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…
“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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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