With a one-minute look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with a point.

When the early church wanted to commemorate the martyrs and saints who were not honored by feast days,

either because they were unknown or nameless when they went to their deaths, the answer was the creation of the Feast of All Saints,

also known as All Saints Day, in older English, Hallow Mass or All Hallows Day.

Hallows refers to holy ones or saints.

Now, the holiday has evolved through many centuries. That's its history. It's a wonderful thing to

thank God for the saints who have gone before us and to teach our children about the history of

the Christian celebration that gives the holiday its name, to tell them the stories of the heroes

of the faith. And if you don't know those stories, take some, to tell them the stories of the heroes of the faith.

And if you don't know those stories, take some time to learn them.

Stories of the faithful who have gone before us can offer us a perspective for our own life

and our own faith, a perspective that's really not available anywhere else.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with The Point.