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Halloween from pane A I from the church itself. "It really began as a way in which the Medieval church affirmed that good was stronger than evil," said Leonard, the founding dean of the WFU School of Divinity and an ordained Baptist minister. "Often in the Medieval church. All Hallows Eve was a way of recognizing that ... there were forces of darkness in the universe and they were to be confronted with mock ery and sort of staring the devil down." In the early days, people burned effigies of Satan and dressed up like evil spirits on All Hallows Eve, the night before All Saints Day, an important holiday in the church calendar that was widely observed in that time, Leonard explained. "It was, early on, a day of reflection and a day of confronting evil," he stated. "It was sort of a package deal with All Saints Day." All Saints Day, officially the Solemnity of All Saints in the Roman Catholic church, is sometimes also called All Hallows. The Roman Catholic Church and some Protestant traditions still mark the holiday with reverent services today, said Leonard, a native of Fort Worth. Texas. The tradition of trick-or treating also has Christian roots, Leonard said. "In the Middle Ages, people would go door to door - often in costume - and beg for alms (religious ly-motivated acts of good will). That was a way of celebrating goodness," he explained. "Sometimes, they would receive the food and then the people that got the treats' would promise to pray for the giver's dead rel atives." Leonard has fond memo ries of going trick-or-treat ing in homemade costumes as a kid, armed with grocery sacks to "grab all the candy we could." But somewhere along the way. has lost its innocence, he says. Bishop James Hash Sr., the longtime pastor of St. Peter's Church and World Outreach Center, agrees. St. Peter's is one of several churches in the local area that offer Fall Festivals as an alternative to traditional Halloween celebrations. The Family Fall Festival and Children's Trunk or Treat, which was held yes terday at the church's mas sive campus on Old Lexington Road, has been a tradition at St. Peter's for more than a decade. Hash sees it as a way of keeping children and youth grounded in the Christian tradition while still allowing them to enjoy the positive aspects of the holiday, such as candy and costumes. "I like it because the kids enjoy it," said the father of File Photo Rev. Joseph Nance is president of the Ministers Conference of Winston-Salem and Vicinity. four. "We are a family-ori ented church, meeting the needs of the whole man ... therefore, the children play a major part in our success." While he doesn't specifi cally discourage his mem bers from participating in other Halloween activities. Hash said he always cau tions his flock to be on the lookout for unbenevolent forces in the world. "1 continually ask my people to oppose evil," he said. Hash's son and pastoral assistant, James Hash Jr., said the goodness of the hol iday can sometimes be over shadowed by the negative things that also take place on that day. "There are sacrifices that take place on Halloween, which we don't agree with, but at the same time, you've got kids going door to door, getting candy," Hash Jr. stat ed. "That's what we embrace - the fun and the good part of it." Rev. Joseph Nance, pres ident of the Ministers Conference of Winston Salem and Vicinity, said the Conference itself WWPWnr* have an official posWlW'on celebrating Halloween, but instead leaves the decision to its individual members and their congregations. Nance says he and his wife look forward to getting trick-or-treaters at their door and even trick-or-treating www.occupywinstonsalem.org NEED TRANSPORTATION? 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