How Pastors Honored Charlie Kirk at the Culture & Christianity Conference

Showing 5 Culture & Christianity Conference videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

The Culture & Christianity Conference became one of the venues where pastors closest to Charlie Kirk worked out, in real time, what to say about a friend whose death had turned into a national political flashpoint. Pastor Allen Jackson told the crowd that no single person would replace Kirk, that instead everyone present had effectively been handed a baton, and warned against reducing Kirk's memory to something performed at church rather than lived out daily. Rob McCoy, a pastor and former mayor of Thousand Oaks who had known Kirk personally, went further, describing him as the most misunderstood missionary in American Christianity and comparing him to Jim Elliot, the missionary killed in Ecuador in 1956, with Erika Kirk cast as this generation's Elisabeth Elliot carrying the work forward. McCoy pushed back directly on the idea that the memorial services happening around the country were purely political theater, insisting the gospel itself was being preached alongside the politics. Other speakers at the conference took a more combative angle: Alex Marlow used his time to argue establishment media bore real responsibility for the climate that preceded Kirk's assassination, while Brandon Tatum devoted his entire address to directly answering the conspiracy theories that had grown up around Kirk's death.