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Halloween Syncretism

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Halloween is an example of syncretism because the day is a mixture of a holiday called “All Hallow’s Day” which is a day of feasting and remembering the saints and the pagan holiday as the “Day of the Dead.” This has been an area of controversy in my ministry as recently as last week. I scheduled a day for our youth group to go to Worlds of Fun, and it was pointed out to me that this would not be an appropriate event for our church because of the Haunt event. I did procede with the event. We had ten new youth show up. They experienced a prayer and Christian unity for a day. To me, Christians are educated by the truth of God’s Word. Every day is a good day for Satan to walk the earth, not just on Halloween. Perhaps this discussion question

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