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As a church-goer all my life, I’ve seen varied solutions to the question: “What are we as Christians to do with Halloween?”
Four years ago, Merlin and Theresa decided to "turn on the lights" when they co-founded Halloween Outreach.
As a teen she began searching for truth. Her fascination with the occult and her love for nature led her to Wicca.
Rooted in Druidism and pagan worship, it is not a redeemable tradition, so I will not attempt to make this “holiday” a Christian celebration.
"This is a game where you're attacking your living, breathing opponent by using devils to conjure demons and cast spells."
Debbie Bowen just moved in to a beautiful, new home with her daughter, Cassie, when she began to notice a disturbing presence inside of her home.
Teresa Sutherland's innocent fascination with horror movies and scary novels led to a driving compulsion that had her enslaved to the very fears that haunted her.
Lindsay felt totally incapacitated, so she decided to study the occult to gain the power she longed for.
Kimberly Shumate delved deeper into witchcraft after her mother's death, turning to crystal balls and tarot cards for enlightenment.
All Saints' Day, or All hallows or Hallowmas, is a festival celebrated on November 1st that honors God and all of His saints -- known and unknown.
Why not have a celebration at church where all get dressed up as characters from the Reformation?
Is Halloween more than a goofy night for candy and costumes? Those fundamentalist Christians who bemoan it as a pagan holiday know what they're talking about.
How will the decisions we make now effect those who come after us? These are questions well worth pondering on Halloween, or any other night...
What we do with Halloween is a kind of microcosm for our positioning in the world as Christians.
E-mail responses to the challenge of outreach on Halloween
A self-proclaimed vampire seduced young girls into deviant sexual acts...
"When the going got rough, I could always rely on suicide because that was a way of escaping."
What if you could use Halloween and Harry Potter to advance God's kingdom?
Janelle grew up feeling unloved and extremely powerless. But her search for power and control ended when she entered the dark side of the occult.
"The things that we were interested in were the dark side comic books, horror movies and spook houses. Instead of asking God (about my future), I had my chart done."
Prominent in their string of monstrous acts is all consuming hate; hate for anyone or anything that stood for morality; hate for Christians; hate for The 700 Club; hate for Pat Robertson. |
