Charlie Kirk's Case Against Progressive Christianity
Showing 8 Progressive Christianity videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.
Charlie Kirk argued that progressive Christianity fundamentally misunderstands the nature of biblical love, telling a University of Oregon student that true love requires speaking uncomfortable truths rather than simply being nice or accommodating, a distinction he grounded in Greek definitions of love and passages from Genesis and John's Gospel. Kirk applied a similar critique to a specific, widely covered moment: Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde's direct appeal to President Trump during the National Prayer Service following his second inauguration, in which she asked for mercy toward immigrants and LGBTQ children. Kirk described her remarks as a breach of the service's traditional nonpartisan character and evidence of what he called sloppy theology on the left, though he also said he was glad she spoke since it revealed what he views as the American left's real character. Musician John Cooper of Skillet made a related argument in a separate conversation, describing progressive Christianity as an active infiltration of the church that has left it unable to speak clearly to the moral confusion he believes is targeting children specifically.