Saturday, October 30, 2004
Halloween and All Saints Day
In Mexico they celebrate the day of the dead in a very special way. They go to the graveside and have a picnic. Death is part of life and not a scary thing, but a real thing. Here we spend a lot of money on candy and costumes. I don't have a problem with Halloween. I know that because it is thought...
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The Blood of Christ
Many nineteenth century hymns are about the blood of Jesus. Very little is said about the blood of Jesus now. To us it is too graphic. We can watch gory horror films but we avoid speaking of they very physical and real blood of Christ. The Passion movie goes against our distaste of the blood of...
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