To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here It won’t be a surprise if you see werewolves, vampires, and mummies on the hunt for Hershey’s bars in your neighborhood this evening. You might also see that most recent addition to the pantheon of scary Halloween monsters: the demented clown. How in the world did a figure of fun become… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here If you assess the national landscape of outdoor Halloween decorations, Skelly is hard to miss. Skelly the Skeleton, who debuted at Home Depot in 2020, is a whopping 12 feet tall, “big enough to look down on a basketball hoop,” as his creators put it. The team that brought him to… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here The British press once declared him to be “the wickedest man in the world.” After all, he crossed every line, broke every rule, violated every taboo, and urged others to do the same. Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) actually enjoyed calling himself something else. He preferred the Beast, one of the Bible’s designations… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here So why are cemeteries such scary places on the last day of October? Historians believe that Halloween is the semi-Christianized version of an ancient Celtic festival that spanned October 31 and November 1 called Samhain (pronounced SAW-win) which marked the beginning of winter. Celtic lore suggested that during Samhain the boundary between the world… Read more »