From the Homefront: Tiffany Gee Lewis: Is the Sabbath-day trick worth the treat?

By Tiffany Gee Lewis, For the Deseret News

Published: Tuesday, Oct. 26 2010 7:30 a.m. MDT

For the Deseret News

Summary

One of the great things about our church is that we are given remarkable latitude to decide for ourselves. We don't have a church leader telling us over the pulpit what we can and cannot do on Sundays. There is no list of Seven Deadly Sabbath Heresies. So each family makes a very personal decision as to what Sabbath day observance means.

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Pam in Illinois

Great Lakes, IL

This year we are going to the trunk or treat on Saturday with our annual chili cook-off and the next day we are delivering treats to our close neighbor friends who we have been fellowshiping. Our porch light will be off.

9:06 a.m. Oct. 26, 2010
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Reader

Sandy, UT

This is not an easy situation to call. We first came face-to-face with a Sabbath Halloween over twenty years ago when our eldest was about seven. We lived outside of Utah, and our ward decided to do a Saturday Trunk or Treat (this was a fairly new More..

10:05 a.m. Oct. 26, 2010
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RoundelRider

Mapleton, UT

It's the trunk or treat activities that have killed the fun of Halloween in Utah. Years ago I became uncomfortable with the concept of scaring children, so I took another tack - I got some floodlights and put them inside the front door, put a sign More..

10:21 a.m. Oct. 26, 2010
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Tiffany Gee Lewis

Tiffany Gee Lewis is a freelance writer for Deseret News, where she writes the "In the Whirled column," as well as news stories. She also writes for the Minneapolis Star Tribune and is a contributor to the Friend Magazines more ..

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