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The invasion of the New Peoples’ Army (NPA) in the mid 1980s is a significant and marked event for the people of Gingin, a settlement located at the center of the Bugkalot area. It has stirred up feelings of fear, terror, panic, and anger among the local residents, who were predominantly Christians by this time. The killing of seven Bugkalot men at the hands of the NPA in July, 1988, has aroused Bugkalot Christians and some of them “backslid” and went headhunting again to revenge the deaths of their relatives. How do we comprehend the resurgence of headhunting among the Bugkalot when Christianity has already taken a strong hold? Is it just an old cultural habit that dies hard? Is it a slap at the face of missionaries who consider the eradication of headhunting their most important achievement? Does it demonstrate the insincerity of the Bugkalot’s conversion to Christianity? How do the Bugkalot themselves interpret the invasion of the NPA and the resurgence of headhunting? This article seeks to address these questions. I suggests that headhunting still figures significantly in the shaping of local memory and historical consciousness, however, the Bugkalot’s representations of the past have been reworked within the framework of Christianity. Christianity does not only serve as the meta-narrative of change, it also informs the ways in which the Bugkalot contemplate their existence in the world and their relationship with the Philippine state.