Halloween
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John 11
It begins as a Halloween momentfit for John Carpenter, Wes Craven, Rob Zombie–Lazarus stumbling from the tomb,tripping over loose graveclothes that droop like soiled underwear. The people's averted gazes and cries of horrorturn to wide-eyed astonishmentand that goose-bumpy, gaspy feeling you… Continue reading
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Halloween, 2011
Zombies are hot this year;The Walking Deadis a runaway hit for AMC;major cities around the countryhold zombie crawls. Sociologists theorizeit's an expression of our national tendancytoward mindless, insatiable consumerism.To openly acknowledge thisis to threaten the glue holding America together.After all, the answer… Continue reading
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Halloween: Mystery
Halloween offers appreciation for the mysterious, that which lies outside of logic and reason. This is, in fact, an important and necessary function of religion; embracing mystery and the inexplicable reflects healthy spirituality. Not everything can be–nor needs to be–sorted out, rationalized, categorized… Continue reading
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Halloween: Facing Fears
What scares you? Halloween invites us to identify and sit with our fears. What are yours? Here's a checklist, drawn from my life, past or present: Do you fear death? the afterlife? a big empty nothingness the other side of… Continue reading
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Halloween: Remembering the Dead
Most cultures around the world have festivals honoring or remembering the dead. Why is this? Is it to maintain our ties to the past, to acknowledge how we got here and to whom we owe gratitude and respect? Perhaps it's to… Continue reading