The Psychology and Theology of Halloween: The Collected Writings
As long time readers know, I've written a variety of Halloween-themed meditations over the years.
Some of these reflections have been about monsters.
Many have been about the existential aspects of Halloween.
In fact, many of these reflections made their way into Unclean, where I talk about monsters in Part 2 and about how mortality fears fuel body ambivalence in Part 3 (which, I think, is a lot of what is going on in Halloween). And some of this material has made its way into my upcoming book The Slavery of Death.
Have a blessed and Happy Halloween. A collection of reflections for the day:
Monsters in Modernity (with a link to Michael Jackson's Thriller video!)
The Gospel According to Lady Gaga (a meditation on showing hospitality to "monsters")
Monsters Under the Bed (from the Theology of Calvin in Hobbes series)
The Great Pumpkin (from the Theology of Peanuts series)
Adam's First Wife (where you learn about about night hags and the succubus)
The Wicked (Wicked as in the Broadway musical about the Wicked Witch of the West)
The Theology of Monsters series (seven posts in all)
Talking with the Dead (a Halloween chapel talk)
In Defense of Halloween (an article I wrote for ACU's student newspaper)