This feels deeply inappropriate, I thought, as I started watching Erika Kirk’s hagiographic elegy. I am watching a grieving widow in order to analyse her performance, and pass judgement on her message. Her husband was brutally murdered just ten days ago – let her grieve. Don’t use her as journalistic material.

But anyone who chooses to speak of the most serious matters, in whatever circumstances, is subject to criticism. Being a victim of some terrible act of violence is no exemption. Victim status does not authorise one to tell a nation what the essence of Christianity is, for example, and expect one’s account to be unchallenged.

Her forgiveness of her husband’s killer was certainly impressive

When she walked on stage at the memorial in Arizona, I was wondering how this young woman wou

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