Some readings to get you in the Holiday Spirit, just in case they’re not sufficiently so doing sufficiently in your ward Fall festivals this weekend!

The First Presidency Halloween Devotional

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Music for a Sunday Morning, Part 7: Leonard Cohen’s “You Want It Darker” and Bob Dylan’s “Forever Young” for Your Halloween

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Halloween, by Robert Burns (Annotated Reading)

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Excerpt From Intro to Modern Death

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Excerpt: The Mexican Day of the Dead and Celtic Halloween on the Borderlands

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On Missionaries Appropriating Films: Ghost

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On “Ocean Breathes Salty” by Modest Mouse

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On Robi Draco Rosa’s “Vagabundo”, Mission Music, and The Terrible Questions

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Day of the Dead in English

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Music for a Sunday Morning, Part 20: Nearing the end–New Order’s “Ceremony” and David Bowie’s “Blackstar”

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Excerpt–Under My Vodou: Haiti, Revolution, and Zombie Transformation as Liberation in Alejo Carpentier’s “The Kingdom of This World” and Brian Moore’s “No Other Life”