Whose Eternal Life is Really at Stake!
As I write these words, October is coming to an end. This is a curious time on the calendar to be a pastor. There’s Halloween. And Día de los Muertos. We Lutherans (along with some other Christians) commemorate All Saints Day, while the Catholic tradition includes All Souls Day. The churched and non-churched alike become fixated on the paranormal, such as disembodied spirits, spooks, zombies, and vampires. I must confess that I do like a good, old-school horror flick from time to time, and this is the time of year to find them on classic movie channels. And while I don’t buy into a theology that promotes a fear of the dark and things that go bump in the night, the fact that so many others do is troubling. I recently caught the 1970 classic film Taste the