Have Christians become too comfortable entertaining darkness? In this article, we examine Halloween through Scripture, the spiritual influences we welcome into our homes, and why believers must be willing to question traditions they have always accepted.

By Shannon Lee Perry I have been thinking about something lately, and the more I think about it, the less sense it makes to me. Every year, people spend hundreds, sometimes thousands, of dollars celebrating holidays without ever stopping to examine why they are celebrating them in the first place. They buy costumes, decorations, gifts, candy, and things their children will play with a handful of times before they are forgotten or thrown away. And the moment someone questions

By Shannon Perry There is a form of agreement that many of us have entered into without realizing it, and it does not come through what we have spoken—it comes through what we have chosen not to say. We have been taught, whether directly or indirectly, that silence is neutral, that if we avoid speaking on something we are somehow staying out of it, remaining peaceful, or even being wise. But when we begin to examine Scripture and our own lives honestly, we start to see that s