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| A Wiccan and a Christian View on Halloween's Dark Side |
October 22, 2014 |
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When Halloween rolls around, many devout Christians turn off the lights and head for the basement. For some, celebrating Halloween is playing with fire. As Candy Gunther Brown explains, for many conservative Christians, all those sinister decorations "make the occult seem fun, and not all of these spiritual forces are for good." We'll hear a different take from a Wiccan priestess, who says the holiday can be a time to reconnect with departed loved ones.
Pictured: The common depiction of a witch is deplored in both Wiccan and Evangelical traditions, though for very different reasons.
Phyllis Curott, Wiccan priestess and trustee of the Parliament of the World's Religions
Candy Gunther Brown, religious studies professor at Indiana University, Bloomington |
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