When the World’s Noise Breaks | How the Murder of Charlie Kirk Impacts Christian Blogging

Last September 10, 2025, Charlie Kirk, a powerful voice in American public life, was shot and killed while speaking at Utah Valley University. His murder, a public assassination, sent shockwaves through social media, newsrooms, and, perhaps most poignantly, Christian communities across the country.

Charlie Kirk promoted Christian beliefs and encouraged Christians to engage in public life, and some supporters describe him as someone who spread Christian ideas in political contexts.

We all saw the headlines and the crowds, the arrests, and heard all the legal rancor in the aftermath. We saw the debates explode about motive, about ideology, and about blame. At the intersection of faith and culture, something deeper unfolded.

For me, as a Christian blogger openly sharing my faith, witnessing his very public murder was highly disturbing,

We Are Not Churches of Outrage

Christian blogging — like all digital discipleship — is shaped not only by what we say but how we say it. In the immediate aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s public murder, I watched several believers rush to debates, hashtags, and judgment zones. In many corners, the tone was no different than political commentators arguing on cable news. In some places, voices I respected sounded angry, weaponizing grief into a rhetorical battle (The Salt Lake Tribune).

Christian writing shouldn’t sound like echo chambers or war rooms.

We are meant to be people of lament and hope, not people whose keyboards become swords.

When I say we are meant to be people of lament and hope, not people whose keyboards become swords, I’m talking about posture, not silence.

Lament means we tell the truth about the world as it is. We grieve what is broken.We name injustice, violence, hypocrisy, and loss without pretending everything is fine. Lament refuses denial—but it also refuses hatred.

In Scripture, lament is always directed toward God, not weaponized against people.

Hope means we believe God is still at work. Even in chaos. Even when culture fractures. Even when we don’t get the outcome we wanted.

Hope keeps our words from turning cruel. It reminds us that no argument, post, or takedown is powerful enough to redeem a human heart—only God is.

When our keyboards become swords, our words stop being tools of healing and start becoming instruments of harm. We write to wound, to win, to humiliate, or to draw blood in the comment section. Even when our theology is correct, our spirit isn’t Christlike.

Jesus never used truth as a blade to destroy people.
He used it as a light to expose, a mirror to invite repentance, and a doorway into grace.

So this isn’t a call to disengage.
It’s a call to engage differently.

To speak with courage and restraint.
To tell the truth and love our neighbor.
To write in a way that sounds more like prayer than provocation.

Lament keeps us honest.
Hope keeps us human.
And love keeps our words from becoming weapons.

That’s the difference.

When Loss Hits Politics, the Church Must Hit Grace

I won’t pretend that Charlie Kirk’s life and legacy were simple. Many across the political and Christian spectrum will debate his influence, his methods, and his impact on young believers. But death — especially a violent and public death — asks something different of us than argument.

The Scriptures teach us to weep with those who weep, even when we disagree with their ideology. That’s not weakness — it’s faithful presence. It’s remembering that behind every set of policies or platforms, there’s a person, a family, a humanity made in God’s image.

So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.

Genesis 1:27 ESV

Bloggers and writers who remember this help the wider Church avoid the cheap victory of dehumanization.

Christian Blogging Is Being Re-Ordered by the Weight of Loss

In the wake of this tragedy, I’ve noticed a shift:

Less noise about “wins” and “losses,” and more reflections on identity in Christ rather than identity in political tribe.
More honest confession about how easily our faith can be co-opted by outrage rather than anchored in grace.
A renewed emphasis on lament — not just complaining about the broken world, but bringing our hearts to God in honest sorrow.

We see Christians ask hard questions:
What do we cling to when we are scared?
What do we broadcast when we are angry?
What does truth sound like when the world is shouting?

Those questions matter more than the latest thread in any social media argument.

A Call for Word and Prayer

The murder of a public figure isn’t something to exploit for clicks, nor is it something to ignore as irrelevant to faith. It is a moment when the world’s brokenness exposes our own, and when Christian bloggers and writers must choose between two calls: