On Halloween

Halloween 2025 Update: this post will be live again for one day and one day only. When I first wrote it after Halloween in 2012, a handful of people read it, nothing happened, everyone went on with their lives. Then, somehow, in 2013 it blew up all on its own. Someone found it and shared it and in the end it had 350,000 views, a ton of wild comments, and made me wonder why anyone actually wants anything they write to ever be read by other people. Someone told me I had angered “the evangelical right in America.” Friends. I didn’t even know what an evangelical WAS in 2012. That is a whole other conversation. 

TLDR version: Christians are weird about Halloween, for lots of reasons good and bad. Bottom line for me is I’m not refusing to open my door and bless my neighbours on the one and only…