Autumn Holidays

Halloween:

• James Jordan’s “Concerning Halloween” letter.
• Steve Wilkins’ “Christians and Halloween“.
• Travis Allen, of John MacArthur’s Grace to You ministry: “Christians and Halloween“.
• Scotty Smith uses the occasion to pray against “trick or treat spirituality“.
• David Mathis urges a “Halloween on Mission“.
• Tim Challies asks “Trick or Retreat?“, and adds his “Halloween Theory“.
• George Robinson thinks that “all good Christians should celebrate halloween“.
• David Wayne reprints Steve Carl’s work on the origins on Halloween, and calls the holiday “the church’s Memorial Day”.
• Albert Mohler contributes “Christianity and the Dark Side: What About Halloween?“.
• Joe Carter calls out Chick Tracts as a true halloween horror in “Trick or Tract“.
• Halloween: Receive, Reject, or Redeem? Justin Holcomb helps us work it out.
• Although he hasn’t done much work in web design, W.J. Bethancourt III seems to have done the most thorough historical work in his essay “Halloween: Myths, Monsters, and Devils“.
• Douglas Wilson follows up his “Halloween” post of several years back with new musings on “The Holy, Horror, and Halloween“.
• Russell Moore takes a stab at defining evangelicals through the lens of Halloween.

Reformation Day:

• Monergism has a brief word about reformation day, and a collection of Reformation Day sermons and lectures.
• Ligonier’s Robert Rothwell answers the question: “What Is Reformation Day All About?“, and Ligonier provides Reformation Day resources.
• Justin Taylor gives us “Resources for Reformation Day“
• The Resurgence wishes us all “Happy Reformation Day” by providing us with printable masks of prominent Reformed figures.
• Timothy George of First Things gives us Reformation Day musings on the the theological legacy of the Reformation.
• Joe Carter updates his Thirty-Three Things: Halloween/Reformation Day Edition, and then reins it in: 9 Things.
• The Christian Resource Institute posts a Reformation Sunday liturgy.

All Saints’ Day:

• Trinity Presbyterian Church explains all three celebrations, and explains how Reformed Christians should think about All Saints’ Day.
• Toby Sumpter leads us in a Reformation Sunday/All Saints’ Day prayer.
• Leonard Vander Zee explains “why we should celebrate all saints’ day“.
• The Christian Resource Institute posts a service of worship for All Saints’ Day.
• Michael Goheen posts a sample liturgy for Reformation Sunday or All Saints’ Day.

Edited 11/1/12 – Thanks to Mike Fenimore for help in compiling these resources.