A collaboration between Ramon Szeitszam and Bishop Tim Mansfield.
As we come to the end of October, most people’s attention is on the candy and costume festival known as Halloween.
Like most popular, modern holidays, Halloween is a blend of an ancient pagan festival (in this case Celtic Samhain), a medieval church holy day and a liberal dash of 20th-century commercialism. Quite how much of each and where one begins and the others end is a matter of debate.