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The Eric Metaxas Show

The Christian Left and the Charlie Kirk Memorial

The Eric Metaxas Show

Metaxas Media

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Society & Culture, Christianity, News

4.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Investigative journalist Megan Basham joins Eric Metaxas to discuss the Charlie Kirk memorial and the response it drew from the Christian left. Together they consider what this moment reveals about the Church, culture, and the profound opportunity for revival in America.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Eric Metaxus show. Would you consider yourself smart, insightful, precocious, astute, clever, wise beyond your years, and good at checking a cesarets for synonyms well then you've

0:22.9

come to the right place here now is the handsome attractive striking gorgeous and quite

0:28.1

frankly breathtaking eric ma texas welcome to hour two we got me Megan Basham coming up. I'm still reeling from the last few days being with so many friends at the Charlie Kirk Memorial, which I will say again, folks, I can't think of a more powerful witness to the Christian faith ever.

0:55.9

I know that sounds like hyperbole, but help me figure this out.

1:00.3

Like, when have we seen anything like it?

1:02.3

After 9-11, we had one service at the Beech National Cathedral where they allowed Billy Graham to give a gospel sermon.

1:10.5

That was it. That was it.

1:11.6

That was it.

1:14.5

The outpouring the other day, the collection of leaders, world leaders in the room,

1:24.1

I don't think I've ever, ever, ever seen anything like it.

1:27.0

And it's kind of where I think a lot of people get in the memo, like, hey, I think

1:30.8

this Christianity thing might be okay.

1:32.4

This might be a positive thing.

1:35.1

Yeah.

1:35.4

Yeah, it would have been one thing to have just one of those people from the cabinet or

1:39.4

maybe even two, but it was everyone.

1:42.7

Everyone was there.

1:43.8

It was extraordinary.

1:45.3

I followed some folks that, you know, on Instagram that were there, some influencers.

1:52.2

They're, I think, more libertarian.

1:55.0

I don't think they're of faith, but they escaped Cuba many couple years back.

2:00.3

And Charlie Kirk had invited them to a debate, which is obviously something in Cuba that doesn't exist.

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