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Article: A church embraces ghouls, gingerly ; At this Halloween bash, vampires need not apply
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 18, 2009
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Matters of Faith is a series of occasional articles about
religious life in area communities.
BEDFORD - Enter the sanctuary at First Parish in Bedford on
Saturday and you'll find classic horror films like "Frankenstein"
and "The Fly" playing on one wall.
You may need to step over a zombie or two to get to the series of
nine themed rooms in which the Unitarian Universalist church's
youth group will host its annual haunted house, expected to attract
more than 1,000 visitors this month.
Most houses of worship tend to shy away from observing Halloween.
For many traditional denominations, the day - thought to have its
roots in Celtic and pagan celebrations of the end of summer and the ...