This is a special edition of Denison Forum's daily article podcast for Friday, September the 12th, 2025.

This special edition is authored by cultural theologian Dr. Jim Denison and narrated by Chris Elkins.

President Trump announced on Fox and Friends this morning that police have arrested a suspect in the assassination of Charlie Kirk on a Utah college campus earlier this week.

Quote, I think with a high degree of certainty we have him, the president said.

He added, essentially, someone who knew him turned him in.

He explained that investigators found the suspect with help from a minister,

a member of the U.S. Marshal Service, and the suspect's father.

Quote, we have the person that we think is the person we're looking for,

but they drove into the police headquarters and he's there now.

The New York Post is also reporting that law enforcement personnel told them the suspect is a 22-year-old Utah local.

We will obviously know much more about this evolving story in the hours and days to come,

but I want to respond to this breaking news with three biblical reflections.

One, sin is ultimately punished.

Four American presidents have been assassinated.

Each time, their killer was apprehended.

You might be thinking that this is unsurprising, given the level of police and law enforcement

that always respond to such high-level crime.

And you're right, many crimes, though, indeed go unsolved in our country.

But sin brings consequences beyond legal responses.

The person who chooses to drive drunk and dies in a car wreck,

the adulterer who loses his marriage and family, and the pastor who loses

his ministry over moral failures all illustrate the fact from Galatian 6 verse 7 that,

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