Should Christians celebrate Halloween 31 Articles

by Reva Niner

Some may wonder what is Halloween? It's a time for children to dress up and go out trick-or treating for candy and other goodies. Time for games and pranks (mostly the older kids). Its a time for witches, ghosts, punkins a...read more

by SaurKraut

It wasn't in my time, but there are people who remember a kinder, gentler Halloween. Halloween was once far removed from it's pagan origins. Children dressed up as their favorite characters, and the scariest thing you saw...read more

by Susan Kliebenstein

Halloween is the eve of All Saints Day. The day is actually "All Souls Day." It's a good day to remember all the souls who have gone before us, whether they were saints, or sinners, famous or infamous. Sometimes we might...read more

by James Douglas

The Spirit of Fear 2 Timothy 1:7, "For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind."-NKJV Is it me, or does the celebration of Halloween get bigger and bigger every year? I can re...read more

by Annette Bromley

SOME THOUGHTS ON HALLOWEEN The following are just my thoughts, my personal conclusions from my own study and research and from the building of my personal Christian Faith. Take it or leave it for what it is worth. For ...read more

by Courtney Caswell-Peyton

Devotees Disavow Halloween: The 'Average Joe' Tolerates A Few Tricks and Accepts a Few Antics Halloween has historically been a holiday that is steeped in its fair share of controversy. Whether we flashback to the eighti...read more

by rainbowgirlx

Should Christians celebrate Halloween? As a child I was never allowed to go trick or treating with the other children of the village, and I felt this horribly unfair. My parents are firm Christians and since the days when ...read more

by Francie Hemphill

Christian mostly celebrate harvest time it when at the end of the season you gather up the crop. Halloween is a time to celebrate the dead, so Christian move away for that. I don't see nothing wrong with church people ha...read more

by Shawn Vilmaire

Christians created the Holiday known as All Hallows Eve, So why should they not celebrate it? It is the eve of All Saints Day a Christian holiday the same as Christmas Eve is the eve of Christmas another Christian Holiday...read more

by Jennifer Vose

I distinctly remember the feeling, as a child, of not being allowed to celebrate Halloween like my friends could. The costumes, evening walk from house to house, and candy were off-limits to me because my mother believed i...read more

by David Furritus

Of course, they shouldn't! Everyone knows that Halloween is nothing more than a modernized version of a holiday celebrated by Devil worshipers! Just like Christmas is another modernized version of some other silly pagan ho...read more

by Pamela Sherrodd

The only way that I feel Christians should celebrate Halloween is if they celebrate it for what it is. Halloween is now considered just a day for dressing up and scaring people. Nobody thinks of it as the day that we are t...read more

by Karen Shoemaker

This is a good question and one I'm not sure I have the right answer for. I have raised two children and I am now raising two more. That's another story in itself. When my first two were young we celebrated Halloween and I...read more

by Ken Johnstone

The 31st October is celebrated the world over as Halloween, or to give it its proper title "All Hallow's Eve", which over the centuries was abbreviated to Hallow's Eve. (Or een) Most people in modern times simply see Hallo...read more

by Dwayne Theriault

Years ago I found myself talking to a Satan worshiper in a Internet chat room, rather then run I figured I would learn from him a few things that I was wondering about. I asked him is it true that Halloween is the big ...read more

by Rebecca Hurt

When I was young my family, as Christians, never celebrated Halloween. For that matter, we still don't celebrate Halloween, but it was only when I was very young that I ever thought about it. When I was young I wanted Hall...read more

by Annagail Lynes

Is it okay to trick or treat? Is it okay to celebrate Halloween? I grew up in a family that sent me mixed messages. I went trick or treating as a child. In fact my Mom tells a story about how my Dad and Mom took me ...read more

by Naomi Leveton

I'm not sure it's really right to say whether or not Christians should celebrate Halloween. It's really up to them isn't it? I'm not a Christian: I never have been and I don't plan to become one. None of my immediate famil...read more