https://rinsland.net/tag/holidays/ Recent content in Holidays on Rinsland's Corner Hugo en-US Thu, 29 Oct 2026 10:02:00 -0500 https://rinsland.net/posts/2026/halloween-is-a-christian-holiday/ Thu, 29 Oct 2026 10:02:00 -0500 https://rinsland.net/posts/2026/halloween-is-a-christian-holiday/ <h1 id="halloween-is-a-christian-holiday">Halloween Is a Christian Holiday</h1> <p>Halloween is the eve of All Saints&rsquo; Day, the first night of a three-day Christian season called Allhallowtide. If you grew up in an evangelical church, you&rsquo;ve probably heard otherwise. Every October, some Christians warn that it is really a pagan festival in disguise, or even a night that belongs to the devil. That concern usually comes from a good place: a desire to stay faithful to Scripture. But the history points the other way. The name, the date and most of the traditional customs come from the church&rsquo;s remembrance of the saints and the faithful dead. The &ldquo;pagan origins&rdquo; story is much younger. It began as Protestant polemic against Catholicism and was filled out by Victorian scholarship that historians have since largely abandoned.</p>