The Surprising Christian Origin of Halloween

If you grew up in church culture at all, you probably remember a big brouhaha every October.While “secular people” prepared for Halloween, your church (or the one down the street or across town) started preaching sermons about Oct. 31, talking about devil worship, how the candy handed out by unknowing neighbors was probably blessed by witches, how Halloween was the day when demons ran wild and so on. You probably listened to the Adventures in Odyssey episode about Halloween. And if you went to a