Plenty of ink has been spilled over the years about church-run horror houses—they crop up every Halloween. The original “Hell House” creator estimates that 3,000 ministries will sponsor some manner of horror-house “outreach” this year.

Strange—you’d think that most congregations would be too busy getting ready for their big Reformation Day celebrations to waste time dressing up like demons and scaring impressionable young teens with crass and tasteless scenes of carnage….