Three reasons Charlie Kirk’s murder is relevant to us all
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🗓️ 15 September 2025
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Turning Point USA has announced that a memorial service for Charlie Kirk has been scheduled for Sunday, September 21, in Glendale, Arizona. The service will take place at State Farm Stadium, which can seat 73,000 people. The assassination of Charlie Kirk is a tragedy that affects every American and especially every American evangelical in ways that may not be obvious but are deeply significant. From what we know, the assassin disagreed with Charlie Kirk’s ideas, so he killed him. Those who are celebrating Kirk’s death are doing so for the same reason. Here are three reasons this is so dangerous for our nation and especially for evangelicals.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to Denison Form's daily article podcast. |
| 0:17.1 | It's Monday, September 15th, 2025. |
| 0:20.2 | I'm Connor Jones, co-hosts of the Culture Brief Podcast here at Denison Forum, filling in for Chris Elkins and narrating today's daily article, authored by our co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:31.4 | Turning Point USA has announced that a memorial service for Charlie Kirk has been scheduled for Sunday, September 21st, in Glendale, |
| 0:38.2 | Arizona. As an indication of their founder's cultural significance, the service will take place at |
| 0:43.4 | State Farm Stadium, the home of the NFL's Cardinals, which can seat 73,000 people. If last week's |
| 0:49.9 | assassination of the 31-year-old conservative activists had been an isolated event, it would be tragic, |
| 0:55.5 | but of little relevance to the rest of us, like an earthquake in California or a wildfire in Texas. |
| 1:01.0 | More than 22,000 Americans are murdered each year, roughly 63 a day. Unless one of them is a family |
| 1:08.3 | member or friend, that statistic evokes little visceral reaction |
| 1:12.0 | from us. But this is not that. The assassination of Charlie Kirk is a tragedy that affects every |
| 1:17.9 | American and especially every American evangelical in ways that may not be obvious, but are deeply |
| 1:23.6 | significant. An eyewitness to Kirk's murder at Utah Valley University last Wednesday said |
| 1:28.8 | when he was shot, there were cheers from the balcony behind him. She added that it was horrific |
| 1:33.5 | to be a part of and that there was just no human empathy. At a vigil Wednesday night, a person |
| 1:38.2 | said, quote, I would have killed him myself. He claimed the assassin, quote, did us a favor. |
| 1:46.6 | In the hours after Kirk's death, |
| 1:51.8 | young people flooded the internet with rhetoric justifying his killing. Numerous others have been fired or placed on leave for their hateful responses to the murder. Presumably, none of them |
| 1:56.9 | knew Charlie Kirk personally. So far as we know, the alleged shooter did not either. |
| 2:02.1 | Why then do they feel justified in causing and celebrating his death? According to Utah |
| 2:07.3 | Governor Spencer Cox, the accused gunman had recently become, quote, more political. The governor |
| 2:12.9 | referenced a family conversation in which the alleged shooter said Charlie Kirk was, quote, |
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