Halloween
As one would expect, I am occasionally asked to comment on Halloween around this time of the year. Well, there has been so much written on the subject that information about Halloween is easy to find, and at this time I have no interest in producing my own version of a biblical response. So I will just offer a brief personal perspective on the matter.
When I was little, my family lived in a "villa" of large and beautiful apartment complexes. Among our neighbors were many American, British, and German children. Every year on Halloween, they would dress up like little demons and witches, knocking on every door to ask for candy. Back then I thought that they were beggars. I wondered why they had to beg at the same time, and was amazed that in one night they could beg enough candy to last for a whole year. Since then my understanding has matured. Now I realize that they were also trespassers, and some of them were also vandals — evidently, that was what the "trick" part meant.
And this is all I am going to say about that.
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