Billy Hallowell - Fault Line: How a Seismic Shift in Culture Is Threatening Free Speech and Shaping the Next Generation

Billys Fault Line is going to rock your world and show you how Hollywood, the media, and college campuses have worked together to crack the foundations of our childrens Christian faith. Thankfully (and thrillingly!) the foundations can and are now being repaired by a new breed of courageous Christians who have ditched the escapist run and hide mentality and embraced an optimistic and victorious engage-and-transform strategy. Read it carefully, and join the growing movement of vibrant, Spirit-filled Christians who are learning how to shape the next generation of life on earth to be more like it is in heaven.

KIRK CAMERON

ACTOR AND DIRECTOR

In a country that praises the right to free speech while at the same time trying to quiet any voice that doesnt fall in line with the mainstream media, Billys voice wont stay quiet. With this new book he offers up an encouragement to Christians to not complain but instead to get involved and be the change our world needs right now.

MATTHEW WEST

CHRISTIAN SINGER

Billy Hallowell brings his typical conscientious professionalism to an area of great controversy and concernthe corruption of the most influential sectors of culture. But instead of writing just another lament, he also rightly points out how our side voluntarily vacated those arenas. Thankfully Billy reminds us the gospel commands us to go and not retreat for a reason.

STEVE DEACE

NATIONALLY SYNDICATED TALK SHOW HOST

Fault Line takes readers deep into the debate over free speech in America, with Hallowell masterfully tackling how the media, Hollywood, and universities have unfortunately become echo chambers in recent years. Readers will come away educated about the problemand inspired to make a difference by ensuring that these essential arenas include additional voices. Fault Line is a must-read for all Americans.

KEVIN SORBO

ACTOR

America faces some serious challenges today, with religious freedom in many ways hanging in the balance. Fault Line is a great read for those looking to understand where we are morally and how our collective cultural values have changed. My good friend Billy Hallowell carefully breaks down how information is passed on and filtered in society. He offers a call for conservatives and Christians to engage with the culture rather than retreat. Ultimately and most importantly Billy encourages readers to adhere to truth.

CANDACE CAMERON BURE

ACTRESS, AUTHOR, AND COHOST OF THE VIEW

America is ill with the disease of secular humanism. In Fault Line Billy Hallowell exposes the secular forces at work in our media and universities and their collective impact on our culture, specifically American youth. Fault Line is an indispensable resource for anyone wondering how we got so sick or looking for the cure.

SAM SORBO

AUTHOR AND ACTRESS

This is an important book on a supremely important subject. May its message get out as far and wide as possible, and may it help correct the extraordinarily destructive trends it has so vitally revealed.

ERIC METAXAS

NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF

IF YOU CAN KEEP IT AND BONHOEFFER

NATIONALLY SYNDICATED RADIO HOST OF

THE ERIC METAXAS SHOW

Its pretty obvious to everyone that our culture isnt healthy. Fault Line examines where we stand as a society and gives us a sobering diagnosis. The only question is, will we accept the cure?

STU BURGUIERE

COHOST OF THE GLENN BECK PROGRAM AND PAT AND STU

HOST OF THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF STU

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FAULT LINE by Billy Hallowell

Published by FrontLine

Charisma Media/Charisma House Book Group

600 Rinehart Road

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www.charismahouse.com

This book or parts thereof may not be reproduced in any form, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any meanselectronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or otherwisewithout prior written permission of the publisher, except as provided by United States of America copyright law.

Scripture quotations are taken from the Modern English Version. Copyright 2014 by Military Bible Association. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Billy Hallowells reporting and interviews from The Church Boys are the property of TheBlaze Inc. and are used herein with permission. All such reporting is the sole property of TheBlaze Inc. All rights reserved.

Copyright 2017 by Billy Hallowell

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Cover design by Vincent Pirozzi

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Visit the authors website at www.billyhallowell.com.

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International Standard Book Number: 978-1-62998-724-8

E-book ISBN: 978-1-62998-725-5

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Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

PROVERBS 22:6

I would like to dedicate this book to Andrea, Ava, and Lilyana. The three of you are my world.

I thank God for you every day.

CONTENTS

I WOULD LIKE TO acknowledge and profoundly and formally thank the following individuals and institutions, as this book would not have been possible without them:

First and foremost, thank You, Lord, for continuing to amaze me by paving for me such a fascinating and rewarding pathone that continues to surprise me.

Second, thank you to Charisma House for allowing me to explore such a fundamentally fascinating topic: bias in our nations main informational spheres. Its something Im incredibly passionate about, and Im so thankful for the opportunity to dive deep into it.

I would also like to specifically thank Woodley Auguste and Todd Starnes for your friendship and guidance in connecting me with the publisher and with this project. Megan Turner, Im also immeasurably grateful for your hard work and dedication on the manuscript.

Youre extremely talented and a pleasure to work with.

Im also grateful to my wife, Andrea Hallowell, who allowed me many days and hours away from her and our two young kids. She was a true partner in this project, and I couldnt have done it without her.

Lastbut most certainly not leastthank you to my parents, who have always believed in me and who (though Im far from perfect) fervently instilled in me the importance of embracing truth, sticking to my convictions, and standing for whats right.

Thank you all for making this book a reality.

A MERICA IS FACING a cultural crisis. For far too long the mainstream media, Hollywood, and universities have held an anti-Christian and anti-conservative bias, with the three informational spheres coalescing to illicit a dire collective impact on society. Over time the results of the imbalanced informational dominance have been profound, with public opinion transforming and moral relativism rapidly spreading among members of every American generation.