Phil Wyman currently makes his home in the infamous and beautiful Salem, MA, but most of the time you can probably find him at the places on your bucket list. After pastoring for 32 years, he is now on the road speaking, writing, playing music, and working in the festivals you’ve been dreaming about going to. He is currently looking for co-conspirators to join him in his nomadic revolution of transforming love.

The Reformation of Halloween rethinks Christian involvement with the holiday by seeing it as an opportunity for the Gospel. The Reformation of Halloween reimagines the holiday as the best season of the year for missional engagement. The horror themes found in the films, stories, and costuming are seen in the light of biblical truth. Topics normally evaded by postmodern culture are celebrated once year by rapidly growing numbers of people, and are described in their biblical themes. Stories from nineteen years of public ministry on the streets of Salem during the month of October highlight the transformational power of taking the Gospel into carnival settings. This is more than a theoretical book on reimagining Halloween for the Churches and Christians; it is filled with evidence that Halloween is one of the most open days of the year for those who would learn how to have fun and share both the love and the hard truths of scripture in dialogical and creative ways. If you’ve wondered how Halloween might become a season of opportunity for touching our world with the love of God, The Reformation of Halloween will give you insight to a phenomenon that has touched one of the largest Halloween events in the world since 1999, and is beginning to reach into the rest of the globe.

Virgil Kaine? Black Label Cigars from Top Leaf Cigar Lounge? Two sponsors in one pic!