Christian responses to Halloween

[Steve Hayes]

Twentyfour bloggers from different continents are blogging on the general
theme of Christian responses to Halloween in this month's Synchroblog. You can
thus get a variety of points of view on the topic.

If you'd like to read some or all of them, you may find links to them at:

http://tinyurl.com/yo4j6r

or

http://methodius.blogspot.com/2007/10/october-synchroblog-christian-responses.html

[Richard Eich]

Post by Steve Hayes
Twentyfour bloggers from different continents are blogging on the general
theme of Christian responses to Halloween in this month's Synchroblog. You can
thus get a variety of points of view on the topic.
http://tinyurl.com/yo4j6r
or
http://methodius.blogspot.com/2007/10/october-synchroblog-christian-responses.html

I'm almost afraid to look. Hopefully, at least one of them will be a
one-line essay:

What's the big deal?

[Steve Hayes]

Post by Richard Eich

Post by Steve Hayes
Twentyfour bloggers from different continents are blogging on the general
theme of Christian responses to Halloween in this month's Synchroblog. You can
thus get a variety of points of view on the topic.
http://tinyurl.com/yo4j6r
or
http://methodius.blogspot.com/2007/10/october-synchroblog-christian-responses.html

I'm almost afraid to look. Hopefully, at least one of them will be a
What's the big deal?

To see something from a variety of points of view.

In this case I learnt quite a few things I hadn't known before about an
American cultural celebration. I'd previously thought (from films, books and
conversations) that it was a kind of juvenile protection racket, but I learnt
that it is a lot more positive than that.

I also learnt that some American Protestant Evangelical churches has
substituted "harvest festivals" for Halloween because they thought the latter
was "pagan" in origin.

That struck me as ironic, because harvest festivals are far more "pagan" than
Halloween.

That's just what I learnt from it.

[B.G. Kent]

Post by Steve Hayes

Post by Richard Eich

Post by Steve Hayes
Twentyfour bloggers from different continents are blogging on the general
theme of Christian responses to Halloween in this month's Synchroblog. You can
thus get a variety of points of view on the topic.
http://tinyurl.com/yo4j6r
or
http://methodius.blogspot.com/2007/10/october-synchroblog-christian-responses.html

I'm almost afraid to look. Hopefully, at least one of them will be a
What's the big deal?

To see something from a variety of points of view.
In this case I learnt quite a few things I hadn't known before about an
American cultural celebration. I'd previously thought (from films, books and
conversations) that it was a kind of juvenile protection racket, but I learnt
that it is a lot more positive than that.
I also learnt that some American Protestant Evangelical churches has
substituted "harvest festivals" for Halloween because they thought the latter
was "pagan" in origin.
That struck me as ironic, because harvest festivals are far more "pagan" than
Halloween.
That's just what I learnt from it.

B - Halloween is very unpagan as so many people don't even realize why
they do it.....they don't see the connections with the end of the Celtic
year...Summer's end (which is what Samhain means) and why costumes are
worn (scarey ones etc.) I see it as totally secular but that Samhain is
Pagan
as well as harvest festival being pagan.

Bren

[Richard Eich]

Post by Steve Hayes

Post by Richard Eich

Post by Steve Hayes
Twentyfour bloggers from different continents are blogging on the general
theme of Christian responses to Halloween in this month's Synchroblog. You can
thus get a variety of points of view on the topic.
http://tinyurl.com/yo4j6r
or
http://methodius.blogspot.com/2007/10/october-synchroblog-christian-responses.html

I'm almost afraid to look. Hopefully, at least one of them will be a
What's the big deal?

To see something from a variety of points of view.

My apologies for not being clear in my meaning. In the US, it seems
the only time I hear proclaimed Christians say anything about
Halloween, it's to call it a celebration of Satanism. Some churches
here have their own version on the 'haunted house' where actors from
the church portray gays, women who have had abortions, etc., in Hell.

So my "What's the big deal?" was what I would hope to have seen AS a
Christian response to Halloween.

I actually was very pleasantly surprised by the articles I read
there.

Post by Steve Hayes
In this case I learnt quite a few things I hadn't known before about an
American cultural celebration. I'd previously thought (from films, books and
conversations) that it was a kind of juvenile protection racket, but I learnt
that it is a lot more positive than that.
I also learnt that some American Protestant Evangelical churches has
substituted "harvest festivals" for Halloween because they thought the latter
was "pagan" in origin.
That struck me as ironic, because harvest festivals are far more "pagan" than
Halloween.
That's just what I learnt from it.