Show Notes
Alexa can smell Halloween. Haunted houses, the pop-up shops, Spencer’s, Hot Topic. Same smell every time, and nobody around her ever smells it. She spent years assuming something was wrong with her. Our pastor Mark Evans names it in about ten seconds.
Mark grew up in Australia where Halloween isn’t really a thing, and his wife was the one who liked it. What changed his mind wasn’t an argument, it was watching his own kids get scared before anyone taught them it was supposed to be fun.
We get into where trick-or-treating actually came from, why Christians who celebrate it always explain themselves, Alexa admitting she’s been judgy about it, and Mark telling us what it cost him to spend years proving he wasn’t one of those pastors.
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