I love preaching about Halloween, this time of transformation, wonder, and possibility. This is a version of a sermon I recently preached at the Unitarian Society of Ridgewood. All the characters are fictional and any resemblance to people living or dead…well you know the rest. I’ll be preaching an entirely different Halloween sermon (also fiction) this Sunday. and will post it next week.
The recording the sermon is here:
And here’s the text:
“A Spirit in the Night”
Sermon by Rev. Bob Janis-Dillon
Delivered at Unitarian Society of Ridgewood
10/19/2013
Cassandra Leahy wants to be a witch this Halloween. No, scratch that: Cassandra Leahy wants to be a witch all year long.
She puts on her dark, dark lipstick in the mirror. Her eyes, beneath her eye shadow, are deep caves of mystery. She is no eight-year-old girl wearing a hat fashioned by her mother from cardboard and a strip of black felt. Nor is she one of the gangs of sorority girls roaming the streets tonight in their identical sexy-fill-in-the-blank “costumes.” No, Cassandra is a woman and a witch of a woman. She has thighs, hips, secrets and regrets. And is ashamed of none of it. And is ready to chant incantations into the night.
Rev. Bob Janis 