Do Christians celebrate Halloween? A look at the roots of All Hallows Eve

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As Halloween fast approaches, writer Lauren Windle looks at the origins of the day and explores the different approaches Christians take to it. 

I’ll level with you. I don’t like Halloween. Even choosing a picture for this article posed a challenge as I don’t want to promote pictures of children dressed as devils - even for demonstrative (or should I say demon-strative) purposes. Any day that glorifies and glamourises the occult is not cool with me.

To many, I sound like the fun police. But I’m sticking to my guns on this one. Halloween is bad news for Christians. That said, I am just one Christian and there are plenty more (although not as many as we would like). Within the Christian community there is a varied approach to the day.

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