Redeeming Halloween
By Margaret is the children’s and youth worker at St George’s Church Kensington, and she is a trained primary school teacher. Her book, There is a Season: celebrating the church year with children, is published by SPCK.
2017-01-19T00:00:00
October 31st: the date of the year’s most controversial ‘festival’ for many Christians. So should we ignore it, replace it, or try to navigate a path somewhere between the two? Experienced children’s worker Margaret Pritchard-Houston explains her passionately held belief that children need to explore the darkness in order to truly understand the light.