In February, Utah Valley University President Astrid Tuminez’s husband collapsed and died on a South American peak. Her anguish was felt by many of the school’s 46,000 students.

Last month, just outside the window to her campus office, Charlie Kirk was graphically assassinated . A fresh layer of sorrow accompanies her feverish efforts to restore her students’ sense of security.

“They are two very different griefs but happening in the same year,” she told the Deseret News.

No wonder Tuminez identifies with Christ’s disciples pitched about in a boat on storm-tossed waters.

“With Charlie Kirk, with my personal grief I have really thought a lot about being on the sea when the fear was so intense, and his closest friends thought he’d abandoned them, when you feel stripped of all your sa

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