180: Should Christians Celebrate Halloween?

Now That We're A Family

Elisha and Katie Voetberg

Kids & Family, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Against all odds we've made it through 4 years of doing the podcast without talking about Halloween. But we cracked. We caved. We succumbed. Succame? . . .The pressure got to us and we could not resist taking advantage of this seasonal opportunity to share our personal opinions and convictions on a polarizing holiday. Neither Katie or I grew up celebrating Halloween so we never needed to have a sit down conversation to go over the pros and cons and come to our own decision about Halloween. It was just never going to be a part of our home. But as our children have grown and become more curious about this autumn holiday, Katie and I have needed to crystallize then articulate our thoughts on the topic. We recon that if we can tell Leon, Lucy, Louis, and Lawrence our perspective on Halloween then we should be able to tell you guys on the podcast.

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0:00.0	Okay, so we are talking about Halloween on our little theme this year of why we do slash
0:07.8	do and not slash do or don't celebrate certain holidays and why we've kind of ignored
0:13.3	Halloween for forever.
0:15.5	We've never actually talked about it on the podcast because it wasn't really a big deal
0:20.5	for us.
0:21.5	I feel like no one was really asking us if we celebrated or didn't celebrate.
0:24.2	I think because our kids are too young and now that our kids are old enough to obviously
0:29.2	love candy and love the concept of dress up, we've gotten a lot more questions about
0:34.3	it this year.
0:35.3	So we thought we would kind of talk about what our thoughts are when it comes to Halloween
0:40.8	and specifically Halloween and how we should view it as Christians, how we choose to
0:45.7	view it in our home.
0:46.9	So anyways, I hope you guys enjoyed this episode.
0:49.2	If you do, give it a thumbs up on YouTube.
0:53.0	Feel free to share it and thank you guys for all your ratings and reviews.
0:57.7	So without further ado, let's dive in.
1:04.7	All right, here we are, Catherine Joy.
1:10.0	You know what's remarkable is that we are now over three years into this podcast and
1:16.9	this is our first time talking Halloween.
1:20.3	I know.
1:21.3	It seems like such low hanging fruit because you don't have to think of a topic.
1:24.7	You know, you could just talk about Halloween when it comes around, but it's really something
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