Comments on: What will you be doing tonight?

By: Dana

Dana — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:08:19 +0000

That is an interesting observation. No matter where one stands on the issue, I think one thing is certain: Christians have no need of fear. The Prince of this world has no power and THAT battle has already been won!

Thank you for sharing your thoughts…and I just read about that secret candy gifting. I liked the idea a lot.

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 19:25:15 +0000

We’ve run the whole gamut from no celebrating at all to passing out candy to harvest fest to full blown trick or treating. I find it interesting that the years I’ve felt most fearful have been the years when I was shunning the holiday entirely. I guess for me, I fit best in the laugh at death setting. Also this year we did Boo bags, where we filled a couple bags with treats and a poem and secretly gifted them to neighbors. We had so much fun picking out the contents for one Japanese family that lives in our neighborhood. I’m hoping to do something similar to them for Thanksgiving and Christmas and have a chance to share something more joyous than just candy and toys.

By: Dana

Dana — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:49:46 +0000

That is interesting, Rob. I was not familiar with that holiday. Thank you for sharing about it!

By: Rob at Kintropy

Rob at Kintropy — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 11:32:21 +0000

We celebrate Halloween at our house, but I’d thought I’d mention a Jewish holiday with some of the same “accessories”: Purim.

Purim, to my time-challenged memory, occurs in spring. We dress up as characters from the Magillah (not in the Torah, but an adjunct book kind of sort of), eat sweet pastries, and make lots of noise. This holiday is celebrated in the synagogue with a interactive reading from the Magillah and at home with a meal & treats.

By: Dana

Dana — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 02:48:05 +0000

Well, it sounds like most of you have had a reflective evening, anyway! Everyone else is probably busy with their festivities. : )

Heather, I like that…go door to door and pass out candies!

Funny story: My brother really gets into Halloween. Last year, he put a bowl of candy outside the door with a sign that said “take one.”

Well, he had a video camera on it and someone sitting in the basement watching the monitor to see how much candy everyone took. When they took one, nothing happened. When they took more than one, the person watching the monitor radioed him and his other friends an they would run out of the ditch in their camouflage and with their air soft guns shouting, “You took more than one!”

By: Hercules Mulligan

Hercules Mulligan — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 02:30:06 +0000

WOOOO!!! Happy Reformation Day, Dana! (Or, Reformation EVENING ).

God bless.

By: Mrs. Mecomber

Mrs. Mecomber — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 02:22:53 +0000

We don’t “do” Halloween either. As always, everything we do around here has history connotations. So we remember Reformation Day and thank God for men like Martin Luther!

By: Heather

Heather — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:42:02 +0000

Our policy is that Halloween m just like any other holiday is a personal decision based on conscience. Sometimes the kids dress up, sometimes they tick or treat, and sometimes we have avoided it all together. This year we planned to let the kids sty home all dressed in non-threatening costumes and give out treats. After a while when no one showed and our entire neighborhood had their lights on I let them go from door to door and say hi–they like to give out chocolate chip cookies to all the neighbors. It ws nice this year–for the most part they were the only kids our elderly neighbors got.

By: Heather B.

Heather B. — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:30:18 +0000

Thanks for stopping by my blog and for posting a comment!

To answer you questions, my family and I will be staying home this year, we haven’t been trick or treating in like 3 years. I made a post about it today on my blog, and I am in total agreement with you on this, we don’t celebrate the holiday anymore, but I would never question and/or judge another brother or sister in Christ for actually celebrating the holiday.

By: Christy

Christy — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:18:10 +0000

I started to make a H’ween post, myself yesterday. But my thoughts just weren’t clear.
Thank you for being clear on the difference between Biblical and personal convictions. We Christians have a way of beating one another over the head with our personal convictions and calling them commandments.
We have not done H’ween since 2000, when I became convicted that we should not participate. We don’t do any alternatives either. Nor do we receive trick or treaters. We’ve been in this house 7 years and have only ever had ONE. Poor kid, I felt bad…anyway.
Great post.