Halloween, evangelicals’ favorite holiday, is coming up! That means that some of you are probably already picking out trick-or-treating costumes; some of you are probably breaking out the Gospel tracts that you’ll hand out instead of delicious candy (“We’re celebrating Reformation Day, not Halloween!”)... and most of you are probably doing something in between.
We have this conversation every year in October, but it’s a fun one to revisit: what’s your take on Halloween? Harmless and fun? Spiritually dangerous? Feel free to share your Halloween thoughts in the comment section below, and take the poll off to the right.
To get you thinking, here are a few favorite Halloween-related links we’ve collected (and mentioned here) over the last few years. Enjoy:
- The Scariest Tract of All: Joe Carter’s excellent take on Jack Chick tracts and the Christian attitude to Halloween. (The post has some formatting issues, but the content is great.)
- No Halloween would be complete without a mention of Christian Hell Houses, those ever-controversial evangelistic haunted houses. I recall a lot of chatter about these several years ago; anybody know if they’re still a serious phenomenon? (Anybody’s church doing one?)
- An article from two years back about Halloween evangelism in general. A decent summary of why some Christians object to in Halloween, and why others don’t.
Share your thoughts! And if anybody can recommend a particularly cute Halloween costume for my one-year-old daughter, that’d be great—we’re wavering between Pirate, Cowgirl, and Giant Bee.
