Pastor Allen Jackson on Spiritual Warfare and Kirk's 'Promotion'

Showing 14 Pastor Allen Jackson videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

Pastor Allen Jackson's relationship with Charlie Kirk centered on a specific argument the two developed together: that culture is never really upstream or downstream of politics, but a direct reflection of a people's spiritual and moral condition, meaning the fight for a healthy society had to start inside the church rather than at the ballot box. Jackson brought that framework to a public conversation with Kirk about his book Angels, Demons, and You, arguing that institutional Christianity's reluctance to discuss spiritual warfare directly, angels, demons, unseen conflict, had left believers unprepared for the cultural moment they were actually living through.

After Kirk's death, Jackson delivered one of the more direct challenges to pastoral passivity among the tributes that followed, citing his own experience polling roughly half of pastors as resistant to political engagement and tracing that reluctance to seminary training he considers cowardice disguised as neutrality. He framed Kirk's death not as a defeat but, in his words, a promotion, urging believers to move past theoretical faith into courageous, real-world action, a call to inherit an unfinished baton rather than simply grieve one that had been dropped.