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Exclusive: Oscar winner Michael Moore is in awe of the endeavor behind anthology film From Ground Zero. The project is a collection of 22 shorts by emerging local filmmakers told through fiction, documentary, docu-fiction, animation and experimental cinema, each capturing the daily challenges, tragedies and moments of resilience faced in the Palestinian enclave.

“This is a stunning achievement,” the Bowling For Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11 director says about the Palestinian film crafted amid the daily destruction and death stalking Gaza.

“It is a brilliant work of art. I tell people, do not avoid this film. If your kids are mature and of a certain age, take them to it. This isn’t just the blood and gore you witness on cable news. This film is the response of people who are trying to stay alive while being bombarded and shot at.”

The Oscar longlisted From Ground Zero, which has played at festivals around the world,...

On Tuesday, approximately 300,000 people gathered in Washington, D.C., to show their support for Israel in an ongoing war that has claimed the lives of thousands of people. The lineup of speakers at the March for Israel included Israeli President Isaac Herzog, Sen. Chuck Schumer, Jewish-American celebrities like Debra Messing and Tovah Feldshuh, as well as rabbis and cantors.

It also included an evangelical Christian pastor from Texas, infamous for his fire-and-brimstone prophecies about the end of the world. “Israel, you are not alone,” John Hagee proclaimed in his San Antonio twang.

Imagine not only believing the world is coming to an end, but wanting it to happen. Eagerly. Then, take it a step further and imagine people with such a mentality engineering American politics and foreign policy to bring about the very thing they seek — the apocalypse.

It may sound outlandish, but there are many well organized fundamentalist Christian leaders and their followers working hard to make this doomsday scenario a reality, an alarming movement explored in the documentary Praying for Armageddon. The film directed by Norwegian filmmaker Tonje Hessen Schei and co-directed by Michael Rowley makes its world premiere Monday night at the prestigious Cph:dox festival in Copenhagen.

‘Praying for Armageddon’ director Tonje Hessen Schei

“What they are really pushing for is the destruction of our civilization. It’s quite outrageous and mind blowing, really,” Schei tells Deadline as we sit at a café in Copenhagen. “And I don’t...

This past weekend, infamous FBI fibber Michael Flynn stood on a stage at Cornerstone Church in San Antonio and spoke his truth: “If we are going to have one nation under God, which we must, we have to have one religion. One nation under God, and one religion under God.” Christian nationalist mic drop. He’d finally said the quiet part out loud.

Which, to be fair, was maybe not even the craziest thing that happened at Cornerstone last weekend as it hosted podcast host Clay Clark’s “Reawaken America...

This story originally appeared June 30th, 2005, in Issue 977/978, of Rolling Stone

What If The True Face Of The Christian right in America is not that of Dr. James Dobson or Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson; not that of an aging, comb-over preacher orange with pancake makeup, smiling orca rows of ungodly white teeth on The O’Reilly Factor or Hardball? Nor that of spittle-flecked Fred Phelps of Topeka, Kansas, roaring that God hates fags? What if the true face of the Christian right is, instead, that of a twenty-four-year-old religious-studies...

In between the release of 2015’s Flatlands, a dark, moody journey through his native Texas panhandle, and this year’s new album The Last American, Ryan Culwell nearly lost his life. Disenfranchised by the touring business and uncertain of his next step as an artist, Culwell took a job trimming trees and, like a scene out of Maximum Overdrive, came face-to-blade with an out-of-control chainsaw.

He realized immediately that he wasn’t cut out for tree work.

Seated in his favorite pupuseria near his home in one of Nashville’s most ethnically diverse neighborhoods,...

Pastor John Hagee, who wrote Four Blood Moons: Something Is About To Change, has been warning that the tetrad of blood moons – which culminated with Sunday night’s supermoon – signifies that the end of days is near. John Hagee On Blood Supermoon Hagee’s theory is centered on two passages from the bible: Joel 2:30-31 – […]

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Pastor John Hagee wrote Four Blood Moons: Something Is About To Change – a book that asserts his belief that God-created events in the skies directly correlate with major events down on Earth – which was recently adapted for the big screen. Pastor John Hagee On Blood Moons Four Blood Moons, produced by Hagee and Rick Eldridge and […]

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London, Apr 17: A church in the Us has claimed that the total lunar eclipse that turned the moon a dark blood red was a "sign" from God and fulfilled an ancient prophecy foretold in the Bible.

Much of the western hemisphere witnessed the eerie sight in the sky and Nasa has confirmed that a highly unusual 'Tetrad' - four successive 'blood-red' lunar eclipses each followed by six full moons - has now begun and will end on September 28, 2015.

Pastor John Hagee, whose book Four Blood Moons sparked worldwide interest in the phenomenon earlier this year, said it was now too late for mankind to prevent a 'huge' event that would change.

From Monday night into Tuesday morning, a Blood Moon will be visible from North America, caused by a total lunar eclipse.

Blood Moon

The lunar eclipse is said to start around 12:54 a.m. Et on Tuesday, April 15, but the moon will not be totally eclipsed until around 3:07 a.m. Et, and therefore will be most visible then. The total lunar eclipse will last from 3:07 a.m. to 4:25 a.m. Et.

Despite the late hour, what makes this lunar eclipse stand out is its name: a Blood Moon. During a total eclipse, the way the light is refracted in the Earth’s atmosphere makes the moon appear deep red, thus inspiring the name of Blood Moon.

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Total Lunar Eclipse Visible In North America

Interested people in North and South America should be able to see the Blood Moon shine bright red around 3:07 a.

Donald Trump may have briefly sidetracked Mitt Romney's campaign message in Las Vegas with his renewed "birther" talk, but it isn't the first time an opinionated supporter has put a candidate in an awkward position.

In 2008, candidate Barack Obama had to distance himself from his former longtime pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, following the Chicago clergyman's incendiary rhetoric and contentious public appearances. Obama also faced questions about his relationships with 1960s radical Bill Ayers and convicted Chicago businessman Antoin "Tony" Rezko.

John McCain had pastor troubles, too. The 2008 Gop nominee secured primary endorsements from pastors John Hagee of Texas and Rod Parsley of Ohio, but later disavowed them because of their controversial sermons.

McCain also was partly upstaged by his lightly vetted running mate, then-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

Earlier this month, Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker put Obama in a tough spot when he described as "nauseating...

The Movie Pool gets an end-of-the-world vibe from the Jerusalem Countdown Blu-ray!

The Set-up

An FBI agent (David A.R. White) is on the hunt for seven suitcase nuclear weapons, and learns that the plot may be part of an apocalyptic series of events prophesied in the Bible. Also stars Lee Majors, Stacy Keach and Randy Travis. Based on the novel by John Hagee.

Directed by Harold Cronk.

The Delivery

Jerusalem Countdown is a solid action drama that mixes political intrigue with end-time Biblical prophecy. Mixing the Bible with contemporary human drama can be a hit-or-miss proposition, but when done correctly, it can give a film a deeper, more profound foundation to build upon. Even The DaVinci Code (with its twisted take on Christianity) benefited from using religious undertones to create an epic scope, and films like Megiddo used Christianity to craft an effective Armageddon thriller.

Despite its slower pace, Jerusalem Countdown...

If the 2008 elections left one indelible mark in the way Presidential politics functions in this country, it is that opponents will forever attempt to link candidates to unsavory religious characters. On last night's The Last Word, Lawrence O'Donnell didn't have to look too far down the guest list to find in Texas Gov. Rick Perry's religious event "The Response" a controversial figure: Pastor John Hagee, most widely known for almost undoing the McCain-Palin campaign with his extreme religious rhetoric.

Flip-flopping on climate change, denying that Bristol is pregnant, asking God for budget help-read the most "flippin' unbelievable" messages from the Palin email trove.

The state of Alaska has released 24,199 printed pages of emails from Sarah Palin's tenure as governor, ranging from her 2006 inauguration to the 2008 presidential campaign. And for the most part, the media and the public have found themselves shocked--to learn how pedestrian the trove turns out to be. "No big revelations," read a Reuters headline. "The bombshell that wasn't," sighed Yahoo! News.

Related story on The Daily Beast: How Palin's Winning the Media War

Indeed, a large portion of the emails seems to confirm already-well-known Palin lore: her feuds with the Alaska state senate president, her association with a controversial pastor. The Freedom of Information Act (Foia) request for the emails was submitted by news organizations way back in 2008, leaving some political journalists to question whether...

Flipping on climate change, joking with Bush, denying that Bristol is pregnant-read the most surprising messages from the Palin email trove.

The state of Alaska has released 24,199 printed pages of emails from Sarah Palin's tenure as governor that range from her inauguration in 2006 up to the 2008 presidential campaign. The documents include messages from Palin's official email account, as well as two private Yahoo accounts. From her flip on climate change to her praise for Obama and her jokes with George W. Bush, read about the juiciest emails. Plus, full coverage here.

Related story on The Daily Beast: How Palin's Winning the Media War

1. Kind Words for Obama

In an email dated August 4, 2008, from her Yahoo account-just three weeks before joining Sen. John McCain's ticket-Palin wrote that Obama had given a "great speech" in Michigan, and praised his mention of Alaska. "We need to take advantage of this a...

Sarah Palin is praying at the Western Wall and visiting Benjamin Netanyahu. Dan Ephron on why the journey won't help her much with American Jews-and what the real game plan is.

Do American politicians pick up Jewish votes by visiting Israel?

Related story on The Daily Beast: The Gop's Race Backslide

Sarah Palin touched down here yesterday, the fourth would-be Gop candidate for president in the past three months alone to make what somfe commentators have started to call the Republican hajj. Wearing a large Star of David around her neck, Palin prayed at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, then spent two hours with guides in the Western Wall tunnel, an archeological site whose excavation in 1996 caused Palestinians to riot. "She was clearly excited about the holiness of the place," Likud Knesset Member Danny Danon, who accompanied Palin, told the Daily Beast. "She wanted to touch the clay in the...

Ted, Gayle, Christy, and Marcus Haggard (Getty Images/Frederick M. Brown)

Speaking at the Television Critics Association January Tour in Los Angeles last Friday, Ted Haggard wanted to set the record straight about a few things. For instance, his sexuality can't be put in a box. No matter how many times reporters asked, Haggard refused to say if he was gay, straight or something in between though he did say, "I’m in a place where Gayle and I — I’ll speak for me — where I am thoroughly and completely satisfied with my relationship with my wife." He also feels really bad about getting Mike Jones involved in a "gay" relationship. And Haggard now "knows more about hatred than I’ve ever dreamed."

Haggard's wife wants you to know something about her husband as well — he was never, ever a hateful preacher. Said Gayle during the panel promoting HBO's The...