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Heading for Halloween

Posted in Faith, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 15 October, 2014| 1 Comment »

The blog hits from searches on Halloween have begun. So here is my annual pointer to some good ways for Christians to redeem Halloween without drowning in a sea of witch masks and ghoul costumes. This is a great time of year to bless our neighbours and reach out with the good news of the […]

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Coping with Halloween – Fry and Laurie Style

Posted in Fun, tagged , , , , , , on 31 October, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Of course, this IS NOT what we do in the Vicarage. But, let’s be honest, Fry and Laurie sum up what many of us secretly think…

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Handy Halloween Links

Posted in Church, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 28 October, 2013| 1 Comment »

I have some wifi and am now desperately posting and scheduling all the things I’ve been thinking about whilst our lines have been down this last week. First off some links to some of the Halloween ideas I’ve blogged previously: Some stuff on how we do Halloween in the Vicarage A few pumpkin carving ideas […]

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Redeeming Halloween

Posted in Church, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on 30 October, 2012| 11 Comments »

Saw this great cartoon by Crimperman yesterday about some traditional Christian responses to Halloween: As regular readers will know, we now like to carve a Christian pumpkin and tell our callers about it before giving them sweeties and a tract. Mez McConnell in Niddrie has been thinking through his responses to Halloween with the help of […]

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How to Hack Halloween

Posted in Church, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 11 October, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Of course, Halloween is approaching before All Hallows Day, and over the last couple of years I’ve blogged a few different ideas that we’ve used in the Vicarage, and some that others have suggested to me. I had a poll where people owned up to whether they hide behind the sofa or not and I’ve […]

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Halloween Reflections

Posted in Faith, Family, tagged , , , , , , , on 2 November, 2011| 1 Comment »

We had a fun evening on Monday night. Wildchild came over and carved pumpkins with us. Then callers came round in silly costumes and we showed them our works of art, got them to tell us jokes, plied them with sweeties and gave them tracts about how Jesus is the light. It seemed like we […]

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Halloween Survival

Posted in Faith, Family, tagged , , , , , , , on 31 October, 2011| 1 Comment »

Walking to school this morning, a girl from the Joker’s year had a bit of a moan at me: When I come trick or treating to your house I have to do a joke. Last year we imposed our Scottish guising rules and it’s obviously been remembered! I have a couple of pumpkins in and […]

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Christian Pumpkins and other Halloween Fun

Posted in Church, Faith, Fun, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on 2 November, 2010| 2 Comments »

We had such a ball on Sunday evening. The kids dressed up, we lit our pumpkin and put it in the Vicar’s study window, put sweeties in a bag and waited around for the doorbell to ring. Which it did, almost continuously between 5.30pm and 6.30pm. Civilised, I thought. As I’ve mentioned before, we imposed […]

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Christian Halloween Poll Results

Posted in Church, Faith, Polls, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 22 October, 2010| 3 Comments »

I closed the poll for the Halloween discussion last night. It was interesting to see how many churches are doing something at Halloween, and how the increasing popularity of the festival challenges us to think through how to respond in a godly way to our changing culture. Some of us find the whole thing a […]

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Poll: A Christian Halloween?

Posted in Church, Family, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on 14 October, 2010| 15 Comments »

Recently I was reminded that Halloween is just around the corner (thanks Cassie!) and have been thinking about the different ways that churches and individual Christian families can respond. The idea of celebrating darkness and things of the night goes against the grain with Christians who have been rescued from the dominion of darkness and […]

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