Author Archive for Rod Bennett

Holiday Hysteria: A Christian Defense of Halloween
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Holiday Hysteria: A Christian Defense of Halloween

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In two weeks we celebrate Halloween— and, as you may have noticed, many of our Evangelical friends now shun America’s October spook festival altogether. They tell their children that Halloween is “the devil’s holiday” and that trick-or-treating is little better than dabbling with a Ouija board or consulting an astrologer. Contemplating the Idea of Death Though […]

Collecting the Debt to Society
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Collecting the Debt to Society

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Repeatedly, the US Catholic Bishops have issued their plaintive calls, asking us to fix our “broken and destructive” criminal justice system here in America.  Most of us paid this call no attention at all.  Perhaps this was to be expected; I’m afraid the USCCB’s recommendations have not always been free from a certain tincture of […]