Following up on my earlier post (Most Christians Are Wrong About Halloween), here’s seven other posts from around the blogosphere to read, consider pray about and meditate upon. Along with each headline, I have shared the source of the content and then follow it with a brief excerpt hat comes direct from the post.
Feel free to share your own thoughts and links to Halloween related content in the comments section of this post.
5 Reasons Christian Should Love Celebrating Halloween (Chad Allen)
We can do these things because God has conquered evil and death in the world once and for all. And while this reality is hard to believe sometimes, our practice of Halloween can be one terrific night of faithfulness–of reassuring ourselves that, by God, we do know how this story ends, and it is the very essence of a happy ending.
Separation, Purity, and Halloween (Jeremiah Johnson)
…every believer ought to be able to navigate the gray areas with integrity, protecting their consciences and testimonies without resorting to legalism, isolationism, and other unbiblical responses that can impede the progress of the gospel.
Christians and Halloween: Tricked or Treated? (Gene Whitehead)
It’s also probably not the right choice to isolate ourselves from the unbelieving world on a holiday when we have such an opportunity just to be the salt and the light that we are called to be.
A Reasonable Middle-Ground For Being A Christian At Halloween (Benjamin Corey)
Of course, I think that’s the role of a Christian– to be people within a culture but not products of that culture; people who seek every opportunity to inject beauty into the world around us.
To Boo or Not to Boo: What Christians Should do with Halloween (John Stonestreet)
There are definitely echoes of paganism in Halloween, and All Hallows Eve had a major influence, too. But the holiday of today—especially the costumes and trick-or-treating—is a recent invention. Like the commercialized secular Christmas, he writes, Halloween as we know it has more to do with department stores than druids.
Kirk Cameron on Halloween: ‘Christians Should Have the Biggest Party on the Block’ (Emma Koonse)
Halloween gives you a great opportunity to show how Christians celebrate the day that death was defeated, and you can give them Gospel tracts and tell the story of how every ghost, goblin, witch and demon was trounced the day Jesus rose from the grave. Clearly no Christians ought to be glorifying death, because death was defeated, and that was the point of All Hallows Eve.
Witch Hunts Make No Sense (Seth Godin)
Hunting witches never makes things better. Partly because there are no witches.