Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Halloween--What's Your Position?

Tomorrow evening is Halloween. I've noticed that all around our neighborhood, houses have been festooned with faux spider webs (some complete with large spider replicas), skeletons, gravestones, and other evidences of the holiday. At other houses, decorations lean toward pumpkins and similar fall symbols.

Let's don't get into the origin of "All Hallow's Eve" or Mexico's "Dia de los Muertes." Rather, the question I'd like to pose is whether those of you with children and grandchildren plan to help them with trick-or-treating? Will they attend a "Fall Festival" somewhere, perhaps at church? Do you turn off your porch light and refuse to encourage the tradition? Or do you don a costume yourself in order to answer the door and give out candy?

Just asking. Hope you'll let us know where you stand on all this.

3 comments:

Erica Vetsch said...

We've never done the Halloween thing here with our kids, though we do hand out candy to the neighborhood trick-or-treaters.

Happy Reformation Day tomorrow, Doc! :)

Richard Mabry said...

Erica, didn't consider Reformation Day. If I lived in Slovenia, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, or Thuringia, it would be a national holiday. Thanks for the reminder (and thanks for the comment). : )

Susan Codone said...

Hi Dr. Mabry,
This is a great post about Halloween.

http://www.jonacuff.com/stuffchristianslike/