“It’s all about Jesus,” Charlie Kirk wrote on X just weeks ago. And he believed it too, posting at the start of the week, “God, family, country. In that order.” This week, Charlie Kirk died for the things he viewed as greater than any other — God and family.

Like so many Americans who never had a chance to personally know Charlie, I’m heartbroken.

A young wife lost her husband, and two little children lost their dad. As a dad, this is my worst nightmare. Charlie was shot and killed while doing what he has done thousands of times across our country: speaking to crowds of young minds. Our country lost a winsome voice for faith, family and peaceful debate.

One doesn’t have to agree with his politics to see Charlie as a martyr of the American project. He defended free speech and open, respe

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