Megan Basham on Evangelical Institutions That Rejected Charlie Kirk
Showing 4 Megan Basham videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.
Journalist Megan Basham argues that major evangelical institutions, including the Gospel Coalition, welcomed secular progressives and Democratic-aligned voices onto their platforms while refusing to engage with unapologetically conservative figures like Charlie Kirk. She traces the pattern to what she calls a third way model, associated with pastor Tim Keller, that once presented the gospel as transcending politics but which she says has increasingly meant tolerating a leftward drift while treating conservative Christian voices as too political to platform. Basham points to a wave of younger Christians leaving these institutions as evidence the approach has failed on its own terms. Other assigned videos are unrelated: Kirk's commentary on the killing of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, Eric Metaxas's reflections on the Christian tone of Kirk's memorial service, and Tulsi Gabbard's case that the 2017 Russia-interference intelligence assessment was manufactured to undermine Trump.