A Year Without Charlie Kirk

By Andrew Muller

One year ago, Charlie Kirk, a giant of the Christian faith and of the Americanist cause, was martyred at Utah Valley University by an assassin’s bullet.

September 10, 2025, marked the end of Kirk’s work on this Earth. But it did not mark the end of his enduring impact on the hearts and minds of tens of millions of Americans.

In fact, it could truly be stated that the tragedy amplified Kirk’s work and ministry in ways that were unimaginable.

For example, countless youth returned to church in droves, buying Bibles, and examining the gospel of Jesus Christ with a renewed fervor. Many others decided to get married, have more children, or start a family, simply because Kirk taught us the importance of marriage, family, and Christian community.

Even in death, Kirk was able to gather virtually every single major right-wing U.S. political leader at his funeral in Phoenix to hear the gospel and sing worship songs as hundreds of millions watched in person and online.

Indeed, Charlie Kirk’s legacy embodied the Christian ethos and American spirit.

He debated, in good faith, those who vehemently disagreed with him—and even those who hated him for his beliefs.

Yet he listened, he taught, and said the truth in love, just as Christ teaches in Ephesians 4:25: “Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.”

Why Charlie Kirk’s Message Resonated

But there is an important distinction to make: Charlie Kirk’s message was not powerful because he was the one who spoke it. It was impactful because he was a messenger of Christ, sharing the truth of the biblical worldview applied to all aspects of life.

It was God’s message, not his own.

Every believer in Jesus can join in the legacy of Charlie Kirk by studying the word of God to discover what it clearly teaches on creation, salvation, economics, marriage, family, education, and politics, and then sharing it in love with the world.

America desperately needs it.

Are We All Charlie Kirk Now?

Over the last year, however, there has been a deeply disturbing consequence of Kirk’s murder.

Immediately after the tragedy, it appeared as if the entire pro-liberty coalition were unified.

Republicans, Libertarians, neocons, nationalists, Christians, pro-lifers, gun advocates, free-speech absolutists, and even moderates and some right-leaning Democrats were united in “picking up the mic” and continuing the work.

But a year later, the division and vitriol among those who wish to see America continue to be a bastion of liberty and individual Christian self-government is more severe than ever before.

Constant infighting, bickering, and purity tests have been waged against speakers, authors, podcasters, and thought leaders that disagree on matters of foreign policy, immigration, artificial intelligence, and a host of important issues but agree on the basics.

This infighting since September 10, 2025, has not been done in good faith, and it certainly has not been done in the spirit of Charlie Kirk.

All the while, as the Liberty movement is forming a circular firing squad, the radical Left, globalists, communists, and the enemies of the West are organizing and zeroing in for the kill.

Do not misunderstand the point: serious policy discussions among the ranks of the pro-American cause are healthy and even necessary. But disunity, stone casting, and internal war help our enemies more than they help us.

As the U.S. suffers from $40 trillion in national debt, a startling moral decline, a rising technocracy, and an ever-growing Deep State that inches the U.S. towards global tyranny, unity is needed.

In fact, without it, we will all perish at the hands of our enemies.

We Can Be Better, for Charlie

During this somber observation of the martyrdom of perhaps the most impactful American in the last century, may all patriots who wish to protect our Christian constitutional republic recall the words of Kirk:

“You have to try to point them toward ultimate purposes and toward getting back to the church, getting back to faith, getting married, and having children. That is the type of conservatism that I represent, and I’m trying to paint a picture of virtue, of lifting people up, not just staying angry.”

Published with permission of libertysentinel.org