Honoring the Witnesses: All Saints' Day
Breakpoint
Colson Center
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🗓️ 31 October 2023
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Sure, go ahead and let the kids dress up like Batman and hit up your neighbors for candy. But when the hoopla of modern Halloween is over, encourage your kids to imitate some real heroes—not in what they put on, but in how they live their lives.
That was Chuck Colson, from October 31, 2007, describing the rich history behind All Saints' Day.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of Unchanging |
| 0:05.4 | Truth. |
| 0:06.4 | For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street. |
| 0:09.7 | Every autumn and a sort of season or ritual, the leaves start turning colors, the air turns |
| 0:15.0 | chilly, and Christians argue over whether to celebrate Halloween. |
| 0:18.6 | While I've never been a huge fan of the dark sketchy costumes, and I'm talking about |
| 0:23.3 | what adults wear these days, there's a whole history to this day that's unknown to |
| 0:27.7 | most people. |
| 0:28.7 | In fact, there's an even more amazing history behind tomorrow, all saints day. |
| 0:34.6 | Back in 2007, Chuck Colson described that history in a Breakpoint commentary that he called |
| 0:40.4 | honoring the witnesses. |
| 0:42.3 | Here's Chuck Colson. |
| 0:43.3 | It's Halloween again, and to be frank, I really don't look forward to talking about |
| 0:47.3 | it on Breakpoint every year. |
| 0:49.3 | At best, Halloween has become an excuse to ask total strangers for candy. |
| 0:53.5 | At worst, it's a celebration of the mindless paganism, our ancestors wisely turned their |
| 0:58.5 | backs on. |
| 0:59.5 | So this year, I'd like to turn your attention to the often overlooked celebration that |
| 1:02.9 | Halloween calls to mind. |
| 1:04.9 | In case you've missed it before, the name Halloween is a shortening of all Hallows Eve and |
| 1:10.4 | signifies the night before all saints day. |
| 1:13.1 | For centuries, on all saints day, the church celebrated the lives of Christians who went |
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