October 31: Celebrating the Death of Unity
Halloween has little joy for me. Maybe that's because I didn't really celebrate it much growing up because my family didn't do Halloween. But I think it's more than that. Every Halloween, my Facebook feed fills with "Happy Reformation Day!" While at school, there were literal parties celebrating the day Luther pounded those 95 theses on the Cathedral doors and liberated the Holy Spirit from the clutches of the Evil Catholic Church. Do I sound overdramatic? I only wish I was. It breaks my heart, and I often take a haitus from Facebook around this time if I think about it because of how much it hurts to see our brokenness being celebrated. “Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand." (Matthew 12:25) Jesus' words could not be more clear, and I believe we reap the results of the dissent we sow. "I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, tha...