Billy Hallowell

Billy Hallowell is a digital TV host and interviewer for Faithwire and CBN News and the co-host of CBN’s "Quick Start Podcast." Hallowell has written more than 14,000 stories on faith, culture and politics, has interviewed hundreds of celebrities, authors and influencers and is the author of four books, including "Playing with Fire: A Modern Investigation into Demons, Exorcism, and Ghosts," and "The Armageddon Code: One Journalist's Quest for End-Times Answers." He was formerly the director of content and communications at Pure Flix and the former faith and culture editor at TheBlaze.

Articles by Billy Hallowell

Church view from pulpit. (Photo credit: Chadd Balfour/Shutterstock)

Yes, you really do need God: Dismantling secularists’ and atheists’ big lie

Suicide and overdose deaths abound. Unhappiness has become endemic. Confusion is our newfound cornerstone. All the while, the most relevant solution to the afflictions of the soul -- authentic, personal faith -- is dismissed, diminished and laughed off. Published February 14, 2022

In this July 16, 2021 file photo, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem speaks during the Family Leadership Summit in Des Moines, Iowa. Gov. Noem is seeking to pass tougher abortion restrictions in South Dakota, after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed a law banning most abortions in Texas to go forward. Noem said on social media that she wants to look at the laws and make sure South Dakota's abortion restrictions are the strongest.(AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall File)

The insanely strong case for a moment of silence — and prayer — in schools

Prayer is one of the most peace-instilling, hope-granting and faith-centric rituals available to the human race, yet it's also one of the most contentious, disputed and maligned practices. Published February 3, 2022

In this file photo, two young women participate in a pro-life candlelight vigil organized by Students for Life at UGA held to protest Roe v. Wade at the University of Georgia Arch, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017, in Athens, Ga. (John Roark/Athens Banner-Herald via AP, File)/Athens Banner-Herald via AP) ** FILE **

Why the story of a mother allegedly tossing her newborn in a dumpster is a pro-choice nightmare

The mainstream media have taken notice of a horrific story about an 18-year-old New Mexico woman who allegedly threw her newborn baby in a dumpster. Published January 20, 2022

The Rev. Meredith Mills delivers a sermon from the pulpit for some 30 attendants during the second service of the day in the sanctuary at Westminster United Methodist Church Sunday, Dec. 12, 2021, in Houston. The church holds two Sunday services. The first is a looser, more contemporary service with an electric band that is better attended by families with children held in the Fellowship Hall. The second is the traditional service held in the sanctuary. (AP Photo/Michael Wyke) ** FILE **

Follow the science? The inconvenient truth atheists and secularists defiantly deny

As the world wearily embarks on yet another new year, angst, chaos, and uncertainty have become forlorn norms. Published December 31, 2021

In this Sept. 21, 2015, photo, actor Alec Baldwin attends a news conference at United Nations headquarters. Experts predict a tremendous legal fallout after Baldwin pulled the trigger on a prop gun while filming Rust in New Mexico and unwittingly killed a cinematographer and injured a director. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) **FILE**

‘Gotcha’ reactions to Baldwin’s plight reveal our cultural rot

Details about the horrific shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of Alec Baldwin's film "Rust" are still coming out -- but the lack of definitive facts around the matter hasn't stopped critics from weighing in with harsh rhetoric, presumptions and vicious attacks. Published November 1, 2021

In this Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019, file photo, television journalist Katie Couric attends the 60th annual Clio Awards at The Manhattan Center in New York. Ms. Couric in Oct. 2021 revealed she had withheld controversial quotes from a 2016 interview with the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in an effort to “protect” Justice Ginsburg from a public backlash. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

The serious and potentially deadly perils of media bias

Complaints and grievances about media bias are nothing new, yet the constant, decades-long clamor about unfair and twisted coverage has done absolutely nothing to halt seemingly ceaseless and pervasive examples of journalistic malfeasance. Published October 20, 2021

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