I definitely respect that decision my parents made. But my own opinion has softened on the subject. At our church, we've begun a tradition of hosting a Halloween Fun Fair in our gym. Milford's a small community but there are a lot of kids and families who go trick-or-treating. We use the 'pagan' holiday for kingdom purposes, offering a inside option full of games with subtle Gospel tie-ins, a ton of candy, and even passing out Bibles as part of our Grand Prize table.
While it is not too much of a stretch to redeem Halloween for ministry purposes, it felt like a stretch to do a Music Monday around it. I did a half-hearted search for Christian Halloween songs, expecting little to no results. To my surprise, I found something I could use.
Thanks to this video breakdown, I realized there are some cringe-worthy old-school options along with some more current ones. I also realized I had been forgetting one of my favorite songs from one of my favorite albums of my late high school/early college years.
Audio Adrenaline's "Some Kind of Zombie" isn't overly campy and by-and-large still holds up. Notice the good and bad imagery in the video and how the song itself goes back and forth between the harsh and light tones, fitting pretty well with the overall themes of the lyrics.
The Walking Dead has brought Zombie Apocolyptic-ism to mainstream culture. This song reminds us that we can actually see spiritual truth in the horror trope. One could of course embrace the idea that we are born to new life in Christ (1 John 5:1-5). But this takes the opposite approach, that we are the zombies, dead to sin (Colossians 3:1-9). It's presence is still there, but it holds no power over us if we walk by the Spirit. In that sense, we are some kind of zombies.
Personal Opinion Side Note: For my money - when it comes to back-to-back albums - "Some Kind of Zombie" and "Underdog" are as good as any CCM artists ever not named dc Talk.
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