Evangelical

Special Halloween/Reformation Day/All Saints Edition

October 30, 2009 by
14 Comments
Special Halloween/Reformation Day/All Saints Edition October 30, 2009

This weekend is lots of holidays, sacred and profane, overlapping and one after another. So we will contemplate them all.

Previous Post
Contemporary Reformation
Next Post
The most powerful writer since Julius Caesar
Recent Comments
14 Comments | Leave a Comment
"I'll admit that I don't attend other churches much and not those outside of LCMS ..."
Plow Jockey
The Problem with Rebranding the Church
"I'd like to have enough 'socialism' so I don't have to see people going through ..."
Christiane Smith
Both the Left and the Right ..."
"Oh, and then there's the Good Samaritan parable, though that's more about "kind heretic/schismatic" than ..."
SKJAM!
How the Government Can Constitutionally Support ..."
"Chris Brooks,You write:You mean putting chemicals from an unrealistic environment in a vat and then ..."
Jim Bales
How the Government Can Constitutionally Support ..."
Browse Our Archives
Follow Us!
Related posts from Cranach
Evangelical
The Sermon on the Mount, Vocation, & Labor...
Cranach
Evangelical
American Birthday Blues
Cranach
Evangelical
Presenting the Augsburg Confession
Cranach
Evangelical
Going on Walkabout
Cranach
TRENDING AT PATHEOS Evangelical
Grant us, Lord
Emptying Out Death's Storehouse
Poverty in the Early Church and Today: A...
Top Twenty Electric Guitar Intros
Today in Hebrews: an opportunity to enter His...
Women’s Voices and the Practice of Preaching
view all Evangelical blogs
What Are Your Thoughts?leave a comment

  • This is precisely what a piece I wrote recently talks about. I didn’t include Halloween and All Saints, but the relationship clearly applies to the cycle of degeneration and regeneration humans seem to fall into automatically: Mardis Gras & Lent, New Year’s Eve & the New Year… even Saturday and Sunday! I don’t think the cycle of degeneration and regeneration is a good thing, but it seems to be something humans automatically do.

  • This is precisely what a piece I wrote recently talks about. I didn’t include Halloween and All Saints, but the relationship clearly applies to the cycle of degeneration and regeneration humans seem to fall into automatically: Mardis Gras & Lent, New Year’s Eve & the New Year… even Saturday and Sunday! I don’t think the cycle of degeneration and regeneration is a good thing, but it seems to be something humans automatically do.

  • Certainly.

    We are in bondage to sin and cannot free ourselves.

    We must be regenerated daily. From outside of ourselves.

    Thank you Martin Luther and thank you Dear Lord Jesus!

  • Certainly.

    We are in bondage to sin and cannot free ourselves.

    We must be regenerated daily. From outside of ourselves.

    Thank you Martin Luther and thank you Dear Lord Jesus!

  • sethfromhillsdalecollege

    My college had a Council of Trent party last night…

    Sacred or profane….? Hehe.

  • sethfromhillsdalecollege

    My college had a Council of Trent party last night…

    Sacred or profane….? Hehe.

  • What an observation, Stewart! This weekend really proves your point, in two ways: Halloween=Bad death (scary, rotting corpses, skeletons, ghosts), followed immediately by All Saints’ Day=Good death (immortal souls, eternal life, saints victorious).

    Reformation Day=celebrating the breaking of the church (yes, that deserves celebrating), followed the next day by All Saints’ Day=the church united.

  • What an observation, Stewart! This weekend really proves your point, in two ways: Halloween=Bad death (scary, rotting corpses, skeletons, ghosts), followed immediately by All Saints’ Day=Good death (immortal souls, eternal life, saints victorious).

    Reformation Day=celebrating the breaking of the church (yes, that deserves celebrating), followed the next day by All Saints’ Day=the church united.

  • So what do you do at a Council of Trent party? Sit around and curse people? 😉

  • So what do you do at a Council of Trent party? Sit around and curse people? 😉

  • Don

    Speaking of a “cycle of degeneration and regeneration,” it is not just humans. What about seasons? Economic cycles? History itself?

  • Don

    Speaking of a “cycle of degeneration and regeneration,” it is not just humans. What about seasons? Economic cycles? History itself?

  • Nice post. I like it. Somehow I think I’ll be checking your blog out again soon 😉 Thanks guys!

  • Nice post. I like it. Somehow I think I’ll be checking your blog out again soon 😉 Thanks guys!