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Halloween 'devil' claim overstated, says Bishop of Leicester
More on the Leicestershire Halloween controversy. Saving this one for some good quotations.
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Add Sticky NoteToday, the Reverend Barry Hill, the diocese of Leicester's head of mission, said: "I think Halloween is an unhelpful time, for religious, spiritual and practical reasons. A lot of churches are organising light parties instead. They would prefer to celebrate something that comes from goodness. The problem people have with Halloween is its roots and origins."
- sounds very evangelical in tone, to me - on 2009-11-03
Children 'will go to hell if they celebrate Halloween', says church leaflet - Telegraph
I don't have a good feel for what things are like in the UK, but if this were a US news story -- and I can easily imagine that it would be -- I would think that the subtext was a developing split between evangelicals and traditionalists in this particular community (part of the Church of England, I assume). Some evangelical-leaning activists put together an article condemning Halloween, it gets into the local church newsletter, and traditionalists are more or less blindsided by the controversy that results.
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Add Sticky NoteChristians do not celebrate Halloween - an American festival - because it has
links to witchcraft and ghosts.- Really, now! - on 2009-11-03
Stephen Colbert interviews Fr. Randall Balmer on the papal appeal to Anglicans, Oct. 27, 2009
Muslims mass-producing children to take over Africa, says Archbishop -Times Online
A profile of a sermon preached by Archbishop Nicholas Okoh, primate of Nigeria, in London, in which he described an "attack" by Muslims in Africa aimed at "taking over" the continent by tempting new converts with the promise of polygamy and correspondingly high numbers of progeny. The sermon was preached in July, 2009. An MS Word transcription of the sermon can be downloaded from the Times site here: http://j.mp/FQAPd
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“They spend a lot of money, even in places where they don’t have
congregations, they build mosques, they build hospitals, they build anything. -
“They come to Africans and say, ‘Christianity is asking you to marry only one
wife. We will give you four!’ ” Archbishop Okoh described this as
“evangelism by mass-production”. - 3 more annotations...
The Elizabethan Homilies (1623)
A transcription of a 1623 edition of "Certaine Sermons Or Homilies appointed to be read in Churches" (the Anglican sermon book, first published in two volumes in 1547 and 1563-71). Includes the Rogation Week sermon (vol. 2, no. 17) that Sommerville quotes in "The Secularization of Early Modern England," chapter 6.
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