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Billy Halliwell

Billy Halliwell

Journalist, commentator, and TV host for CBN News, columnist for The Washington Times, and author covering faith and culture.

Nov 5, 2026

66:25
So what did you think the first time you saw it?
66:28
I thought, I've never seen anything like this before.
66:30
And what I mean by that is I've never seen a movie that is in the thriller horror genre, right, that the movie ends and I'm left thinking, oh, my gosh, I want to pick up my Bible because I want to understand.
66:42
I want to see Ephesians 6 play out.
66:43
And you did it in such a beautiful way.
66:46
I had never seen that before.
66:48
Very few movies have ever attempted it.
68:04
If we don't want the conversion at the end, the redemption at the end, if you want it to choke you up, if you want it to break you and make you think, I needed this in my life, then her scares have got to be real, right? And so when I said I want to make a more redemptive movie this time, but darker than Nefarious, you thought what?
44:00
What do you attribute the increases to?
44:02
Yeah, I mean, this is actually something we're seeing across the board in other studies too, especially young men.
44:08
Right now, Gen Z is showing up to church in America more regularly than any other generation.
44:14
Usually young people are not doing that.
44:16
So we're seeing this inversion and this change, and it's really encouraging despite a lot of negativity in culture.
44:22
I think people are turning back and they're realizing, especially young people, that this lie that they could be cultural relativists, that they could just sort of do whatever they want, whatever you feel, just do it and that's your morality, create your own moral standards, that all of that leads nowhere.
44:37
And that once you discover that you've been lied to, you're looking for the truth.
45:13
People can show up every Sunday and simply be religious, but not really build a relationship.
50:16
So tell me a little bit about how you were inspired to do this film.
50:22
Yeah, you know, so our director, Jared Anderson, who is incredible, this was really his brainchild initially.
50:29
We were going to do a TV show, and we said, okay, let's do three episodes.
50:31
We'll cover miracles, we'll cover angels and demons, and we will cover heaven and hell.
50:36
And that was sort of our plan.
50:37
And as soon as we got out in the field and started looking at miracles, which was our first film that came out last year, we were like, this cannot be a 30-minute show.
50:45
This is a full feature film.
51:29
So what is one story that is going to blow people away?
42:50
Make that make sense.
42:52
Well, yeah, it doesn't make sense.
42:54
You have rappers and celebrities speaking out now more than really some of our world leaders.
43:00
You know, the Trump administration has taken this seriously.
43:03
They added Nigeria back to the country as a particular concern list with the State Department.
43:07
That puts pressure on Nigeria.
43:09
But, you know, at the end of the day, you've even seen the media downplay some of this.
44:04
But what does that look like? What kind of help could Christians around the world even give to people being persecuted?

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