Welcome to Verity Podcast. I'm your host, Felicia Mason-Himer, and I am here to

teach you how to know what you believe, to live it boldly, and to communicate it

graciously to the world around you. I believe that women are ready to go

deeper in their faith than ever before, and they don't have to go to

seminary to do it. I am so glad you're here, and I hope you'll join me on this

journey because everyone is a theologian. Hello, friends, and welcome back to

Verity Podcast. I am so excited you have joined me this week, and I have a feeling

that some of you may be listening to this episode who have never listened to my

podcast before. Whenever I talk about controversial Christian topics, I usually

get some new listeners, and I just want to say thanks for being here. I'm so

glad you are here, and if this is your first time, I hope you'll hang around and

check out a few of my other episodes, too. What we're about here at Verity is

applying scripture to all of life and letting our love for Christ guide our

decision-making from things as seemingly insignificant as Halloween to things

as huge and complicated as understanding the Trinity or discipling our kids or

attending to our marriages. So I'm glad you're here, and in today's episode, we are

going to be talking about Halloween. This is one of those divisive topics that

comes up every fall, and since it's the beginning of October, when this

episode is going out, I figured what better time than now to get this out into

the world so we can have thoughtful conversations around this topic instead of

anger and vitriol and guilt and condescension. Doesn't that sound like a better

option? I think that is what the Lord wants for us, and I think as we look at

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