COVER • CONTENTS • ORDER Personal UPDATE | OCTOBER 2021
HALLOWEEN Chuck Missler Founder, Koinonia House
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INVITATION TO THE OCCULT?
This article was excerpted is from Dr. Chuck Missler’s book Halloween.
very year on the last day of October, American children paint their faces, color their hair, don gowns, capes and fuzzy suits, and traipse about from door-to-door collecting bags of candy. Their parents join them, visiting parties and high school haunted houses. Together, they carve crazy faces on pumpkins, cover apples with caramel, and work to win contests for the scariest or most creative costumes. But why? How did this holiday originate? This night of orange and black offers opportunities for spooky fun, parties with Chex mix and candy corn, and faces wet from apple bobbing. It also offers opportunities for involvements that are genuinely dangerous as people willingly meddle with the occult when they would otherwise never do so. Every year,
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