09/15/2025
At Fidelis, we grieve for the loss of Charlie Kirk and pray for his family, the team members at Turning Point USA, and all those affected by the tragic death of this amazing young man.
A special tribute from Fidelis author Brad Newbold:
In the Gospel of John, the chief priests feared that if Jesus continued teaching, “all men will believe on him” (John 11:48, KJV). Their alarm was not over armies or power, but over words—truth spoken so persuasively it threatened their hold on the people. Two millennia later, we are confronted with the same reality: a man without throne or sword, yet armed with conviction, becomes too dangerous to the guardians of cultural orthodoxy.
Charlie Kirk was such a man. He commanded no empire, but he did command attention. He said, “...when you stop talking, violence happens.” He believed, as Socrates did, that dialogue is the safeguard of liberty, and that a society that silences honest inquiry prepares itself for tyranny. His words pierced, not because they promised wealth or dominance, but because they called people back to first principles—faith, reason, and truth.
Paul, standing in Athens at the Areopagus (Acts 17:22–34), exemplified this spirit. He reasoned with philosophers, appealing not to force but to the strength of truth. Christ Himself modeled it by engaging fishermen, rulers, and skeptics alike—never shrinking back, never silencing dissent. Truth is not fragile; it does not cower before questions. It stands when spoken, tested, and heard.
These ancient voices echo in the silence left by Charlie Kirk’s death. He was no king deposed, no general struck down. He was a truth-speaker, felled because words are more dangerous than weapons to those who fear them. His assassination is not merely the loss of a man, but the chilling sign that our age may prefer suppression over discourse.
If Charlie’s voice has been silenced, the burden falls upon ours. May we have the courage to speak still, lest truth itself be buried. For if society once again chooses to kill its Socrates-like gadflies, it chooses also the poison of its own decay.
