Tuesday, September 23, 2025
As the national political temperature hit dangerous levels, Erika Kirk offered a moment of grace with just three words—speaking of the man who shot her husband at the memorial this past weekend: “I forgive him.”
With those three words, the young widow did more than attempt to restore calm in an increasingly violent era in American politics. She testified to what America has lost, and what America could regain: faith.
Charlie Kirk had faith in his country, faith in his wife, but mostly faith in the Lord. He gave that testimony throughout his public life, and an assassin killed him for it. Rather than call for tribal violence in retribution, however, Mrs. Kirk called us back to faith – her husband’s faith in America and faith in God.
Erika Kirk, a young widow with every reason to despair, stood on a global stage and demonstrated what we have lost—and what we must regain.
That would be faith … Christ-centered faith.
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Monday, September 22, 2025
I first met Charlie Kirk a dozen years ago on the campus of Colorado Christian University, where I was teaching some 40 high school students a two-week course on the Constitution and the outline of American history.
Bill Armstrong—then the president of CCU, a former US Senator—asked me to set aside an hour to two for a young man starting a new project called “Turning Point USA.” That was Charlie—at age 18 or 19. Of course, I agreed.
I was not prepared. Charlie took and held their attention and implanted in them an enthusiasm for political engagement of the sort that endures. He had a gift. Charisma cannot be taught. It simply shows up. Charlie had it. He never lost it.
All is hardly lost in the ongoing struggle to preserve the Constitution and religious liberty. Charlie would be the first to say the Lord is in control.
We shall not see his equal again.
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Friday, September 19, 2025
We have to talk about the trans issue and—most recently—the young man arrested for the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
Utah’s Gov. Cox made it clear in his statement: the alleged killer’s roommate, “was a romantic partner, a male transitioning to female.”
It was immediately clear that mainstream media wanted to stay as far away from that part of the story as possible.
That’s exactly what happened with the shooter who killed and injured children at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis
And then again in the horrifying 2023 mass shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville.
It is insanity to argue the transgender identity has nothing to do with these crimes. The pattern is now undeniable.
Of course: It would be false to accuse all transgender persons of being tempted towards any such crime.
But it would be similarly foolish to say, “Pattern? What pattern? I don’t see a pattern. Problem? What problem? I don’t see a problem.”
We have to talk about this.
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Thursday, September 18, 2025
Decent people were stunned and horrified by the assassination of husband, father, and conservative activist Charlie Kirk. But almost as disturbing was the celebration from so many quarters.
Fellow Americans—including many in “helping professions”—applauded the brutal slaying. And we’re left wondering:
How did it come to this?
Perhaps it shouldn’t be surprising as Judeo-Christianity has ebbed from our national bloodstream. According to Gallup, by 2023, 31 percent of Americans never attend a church. That’s compared to 21 percent of US adults who attend weekly. That’s down from 42 percent in 1970 and from 49 percent in 1955.
Everyone alive worships something. If it’s not a loving and merciful God, it will become the environment. Or money. Or radical politics. And as we saw last week, that doesn’t end well for anyone.
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Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Right now, the phrase “there are no words” has never been more poignant. And yet, we have seen a profligacy of words: some beautiful, some awful, and some words we’d like to hear but haven’t—particularly from those who created the diseased environment of parlance justifying violence.
Like to point to something that’s been particularly true of Charlie in recent years—and that is how much he bathed himself in and promulgated the books, language and life of his Christian faith.
Charlie’s political convictions were shared by many on the right—as he appealed to common sense and natural rights and natural law. But increasing his most resounding message to young men and women was of living a life dedicated to being a better person—a better man, a better woman, a better human being—with respect for and yielded-ness to God.
His dream that we could all be better individuals was a dream we could make our communities better places.
It’s a dream we should all take up.
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Tuesday, September 16, 2025
For years, the Left claimed that cancel culture was merely consequences for bad speech. Now that the free market has applied the same rules to them over their celebrations of political assassination, they’re trying to claim victimhood.
The latest example comes from former Washington Post editor Karen Attiah who got fired this week over her social media posts after Charlie Kirk’s murder. Attiah had modified and misrepresented Kirk’s words in her Bluesky posts in order to make him look like a bigot.
It was journalistic fraud, done to imply that Kirk had it coming. It should not come as a shock that a newspaper would want to part ways with her.
In other words: Welcome to the consequences of your own actions … and welcome to the precedents the Left has set for years for punishing its opponents. If you publicly celebrate or condone a political assassination, don’t be surprised if your employers and clients want to distance themselves.
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Monday, September 15, 2025
Last week, NBC News conducted what it described as “rare interviews” — and indeed they were. Rarely has any news organization allowed twelve federal judges to use it to bash the Supreme Court under the cloak of anonymity.
These judges are unhappy with the Supreme Court for overturning lower court rulings involving the Trump administration with minimal explanation. Of course, there are so many of these cases because too many judges are behaving like activists rather than jurists. In fact, the Supreme Court was forced to issue a ruling limiting lower courts’ ability to issue nationwide injunctions because so many judges were abusing them to stop President Trump’s executive orders.
Americans have confidence in the judiciary only if people believe it is impartial. Anonymous interviews and partisan complaining erode the public trust that’s indispensable to the effective functioning of our third branch of government.
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