Halloween and horror films - Peter Laws & Michael Cummins

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🗓️ 26 October 2018

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Should Christians take part in Halloween festivities? And is it ok to watch grisly horror films? These are the two questions debates by Peter Laws and Michael Cummins ahead of Halloween. Peter Laws is a Baptist minister and lifelong fan of the horror genre, as he explains in his new book The Frighteners: Why We Love Monsters, Ghosts, Death & Gore. He believes that Christians don’t need to fear being involved in the spooky side of Halloween and thinks horror films aren’t bad for people who enjoy them. Michael Cummins is involved in supernatural deliverance ministry. He explains his concerns about demonic aspects of Halloween and horror films and tells stories of what he has witnessed in his ministry. For Peter Laws https://www.peterlaws.co.uk/ For Michael Cummins https://christsetsyoufree.wordpress.com/5-halloween/ For Big Conversation videos, updates and bonus content sign up: http://www.thebigconversation.show Get signed copies of Unbelievable? the book and audiobook: www.unbelievablebook.co.uk For more faith debates visit http://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable Join the conversation: Facebook and Twitter Get the MP3 Podcast of Unbelievable? Via RSS or Via Itunes

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1:04.6	Well today on the program, we're asking should Christians engage with Halloween and horror
1:09.0	films? Yes, it's our Halloween special today on unbelievable and my guests are Peter Laws
1:14.1	and Michael Cummins. Peter Laws is a Baptist minister with an interesting sideline in
1:18.7	engaging in horror films in the macabre. He writes for the spooky journal, the 14 times,
1:24.3	and is the author of two supernatural thriller fiction books and a new nonfiction book, The
1:29.0	Frivenous, in which he unpacks just why we love to be scared. As a Christian, Peter believes
1:34.1	that horror films don't turn people into demon infested mass murderers and the Christians
1:38.8	are also a bit too squeamish about Halloween. In fact, he recently wrote in Youth and Children's
1:43.5	Work magazine that most Halloween parties are all laughs and squeals. They turn scary
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