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🗓️ 25 October 2022
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Today, I’m talking about the topic I usually get the most pushback from on social media – Halloween. Although Halloween typically brings around candy and costumes, it can raise many questions for Christians.
Should we allow our kids to dress up? Should we hand out candy?
On this episode of Fearless, I share my family’s perspective—and what my grandmother, Ruth Bell Graham, thought about the holiday.
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0:00.0 | It's been on the radio and my kids are singing the Disney song, |
0:03.2 | This is Halloween. This is Halloween. |
0:05.7 | So in today's episode, we are going to discuss, |
0:08.3 | should we as Christians celebrate Halloween? |
0:15.4 | Hi, I'm Cissy Graham Lynch. |
0:40.0 | Welcome to Fearless. Helping you have a fearless faith in a compromising culture. On today's episode of Fearless, I thought I would take a little bit of a break from the elephant in the room series. And then I started laughing because this might be my most controversial topic every year. |
0:49.0 | And I get the most pushback, I get the most feedback on this subject, and it first time it kind of shocked me a little bit but we're |
0:55.2 | going to talk about Halloween. Every year I post pictures of my kids dressed up for Halloween and |
1:01.8 | us going trick-or-treating and the comments I get on |
1:05.4 | social media are wild. It definitely took me by surprise the first year and then I think |
1:12.3 | it was like last year I'm like here we go again I'm |
1:14.3 | gonna post these pictures of Halloween and it did not fail I had a lot of people |
1:20.4 | say they couldn't believe that I would celebrate Halloween and that my |
1:26.2 | grandparents would just be devastated and highly disappointed in me. And I say that with like laughter. I don't take offense. It's hard to |
1:36.3 | offend me. I don't take offense to like social media comments at all. So I thought on |
1:41.8 | this many episode of Fearless we would discuss Halloween and as a kid I'll just come out we celebrated Halloween |
1:49.8 | I laughed at the comment that my grandmother would be disappointed |
1:53.2 | because in one of the pictures I posted was of me as a hippie growing up and my grandmother actually |
1:59.1 | gave me that dress and I had stated that in the comment but somehow they still thought my grandmother would be disappointed in me. |
2:05.3 | But we did celebrate it. |
2:07.1 | I'm kind of, my mom gave us rules for Halloween, |
2:09.7 | I'm getting that in a little bit. |
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