National Security: All Saints

Today is All Saints’ Day. Many churches, such as the Episcopal, Catholic, AME. and Methodist, use this occasion to honor the church triumphant in Heaven, with the souls of many saints. This has been the case since the 8th century, some 1200 years ago. In Christianity world-wide, All Saints’ is a popular church holiday. The evening before is All Hallows’ Eve, which was secularized by Halloween that we celebrated last week. I’ve always had trouble reconciling the two from a theological poi