A Faith Awakening - September 17th, Hour 2
The Sean Hannity Show
Sean Hannity
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🗓️ 18 September 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Sean Hannity discusses a powerful "awakening" among America's youth and faith communities following Charlie Kirk's assassination, as explored in Selena Zito's Washington Examiner piece. Zito details the surge of young people, from diverse backgrounds, flocking to places of worship and Turning Point USA chapters over 32,000 new requests since Kirk's death. Sean frames this as a pivotal cultural moment, echoing through mothers at soccer games and local gun stores, where first-time buyers seek protection and purpose. Zito highlights how Kirk's boldness and faith have inspired a new wave of civic engagement, echoing similarly after the attempt on Donald Trump's life. This matters because it signals a generational shift in political and spiritual resolve amid the nation's growing fears and division.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:05.5 | Thanks, Scott Chan. |
| 0:06.8 | Hour 2, Sean Hannity Show, toll free on numbers 800, 941, Sean, if you want to be a part of the program. |
| 0:15.2 | In just a minute, we're going to be joined by our friend Selena Zito, and she has a great piece out in the Washington |
| 0:21.6 | Examiner, The Awakening Fusie Coming. |
| 0:24.7 | And she talks at length about already the impact of Charlie Kirk on young people, |
| 0:34.1 | his message. |
| 0:34.8 | I mean, I spent most of the last weekend watching videos of Charlie |
| 0:39.8 | and the things that he was saying to younger people that really, it kind of takes a younger |
| 0:45.7 | person to say it to them. And it was so impactful. And anyway, the article, she goes into |
| 0:52.6 | great specificity in detail. And, you know, |
| 0:56.3 | young people distraught over this. Remember, kids in college today, they were not alive during |
| 1:01.6 | 9-1101. And, and this has impacted a lot of kids in a massive way. And she describes what |
| 1:09.8 | happened at the sanctuary church and how, you know, busloads and |
| 1:14.4 | bus loads of kids, you know, were going there. Pastor Jason Howard was taken aback by the size, |
| 1:20.2 | the scope, the number of young people that came out on Sunday for service. He said, I'll be |
| 1:25.0 | honest with you. I'm in my 40, so I was caught off guard by the response |
| 1:29.6 | from people who were in my church in their 20s. They were much more in tune with Charlie's |
| 1:35.2 | influence than I was. His assistant pastor was very much tuned in. He's 22 years old, |
| 1:41.8 | and his immediate reaction was to the spontaneity of all this is that |
| 1:47.7 | we're going to pray and the day after charlie was assassinated he had a whole bunch of people just |
| 1:53.8 | gather in his backyard praying selina zito is now with us her book by the way she was you know |
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