Pastor Jack Hibbs: Congressional Prayer Fight and Kirk's Faith Circle

Showing 49 Pastor Jack Hibbs videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

Jack Hibbs became a flashpoint in Congress before Charlie Kirk's death, not after it: invited by Speaker Mike Johnson to open a session with prayer under instructions to keep it religiously neutral, Hibbs instead delivered an explicitly Christian prayer invoking Jesus by name, drawing condemnation from 26 members while other legislators privately thanked him for what he called the first genuine Christian prayer heard on the floor in years. Kirk treated the episode as material rather than just news, framing Hibbs's refusal to soften the prayer as exactly the kind of institutional courage he argued was disappearing from public Christian life.

The two also worked together on more explicitly theological ground, appearing at a prophecy conference where Kirk connected the World Economic Forum's stated goals to end-times biblical warnings and argued the church needed to engage the culture war directly rather than wait passively for a promised future. After the assassination, Hibbs's own brother, present at the Utah event, became a source for a disputed timeline claim about when Israeli officials first learned of Kirk's death, a detail that circulated through independent investigators without ever being confirmed by mainstream reporting, keeping Hibbs's family connected to the story well past his own congressional prayer controversy.