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Article: Masks we wear: behind the Halloween lies a Christian festival that calls us to Christian discipleship.
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- Presbyterian Record
- Article date:
- October 1, 1999
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At the end of this month, someone will see Elvis Presley again. (There are, according to published reports, more authenticated sightings of a resurrected Elvis Presley than of Christ.) And, also, almost certainly, there will be sightings of Ronald Reagan, Long John Silver, Frankenstein, several dozen aliens of various kinds from outer space, and hundreds of ghosts and goblins.
The end of the month, of course, marks Halloween. It used to be All Hallows Evening, shortened to Hallows E'en. But we don't even bother with the apostrophe any more. Halloween has taken on a life of its own, entirely separate from All Hallows' Day (or All Saints' Day) from which it was ...