J.D. Vance Highlights Charlie Kirk’s Boldness and Devotion to Christ

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Vice President J.D. Vance celebrated the legacy of Charlie Kirk this week as he filled in as host of the late activist's podcast, vowing to help continue Kirk's mission of speaking out for conservative and Christian values.

Vance sat behind the microphone on Monday on The Charlie Kirk Show, interviewing leaders within the Republican Party and offering his own thoughts on Kirk, who was assassinated on a college campus on Sept. 10. 

"He was a joyful warrior for our country," Vance said. "He loved America. He devoted himself tirelessly to making our country a better place."

Kirk left a mark on a generation of young Americans, Vance said. 

"Everyone knew him as this fearless debater -- this guy who would take the conservative message into hostile places and inspire younger generations to have courage," Vance said. 

Kirk impacted young conservatives like few have in the modern political era, Vance said.

"One thing that's hit a lot of those young Americans over the last week was how Charlie was there for them when others were not -- when they were afraid to speak their minds, when they were afraid of what a professor would say, when they were afraid that they would be shouted down by their peers," Vance said. 

"Charlie was there showing them that they could be courageous and that they could be bold."

Most importantly, Vance said, Kirk was a person of faith who loved his family. 

"On a podcast a couple of months back, Charlie was asked about how he'd want to be remembered if he died. His answer: I want to be remembered for courage, for my faith. That would be the most important thing. The most important thing is my faith. 

 

"And that was Charlie. And in this dark moment for our country, I think that's the greatest lesson any of us can take from Charlie, to have faith, to have faith in the Lord and to be bold in how we glorify Him, to be bold in our pursuits, as Charlie was in his."

Vance recounted that Kirk's wife, Erika, told him that "Charlie never raised his voice, that he never cussed her, that he was never cross or mean-spirited to her."

"He talked all the time about the most important thing you could do is not vote for a particular candidate -- it was to become, if you were a young man, a husband and a father," Vance said. "He talked about the joy that came from fatherhood, the joy that came from raising a family and being part of their growth and their development, and all the incredible things that happen when you get to be a husband and father."

Meanwhile, Vance said Erika Kirk wants the organization he founded, Turning Point USA, to move forward and grow stronger.    

"It's important … to make sure that his movement, the movement that Charlie started, has to keep going -- we have to build upon it. We have to add to it. 

"We have to make sure," Vance said, "that the next generation of young people feels confident and courageous to speak their mind and to speak the truth."

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Michael Foust has covered the intersection of faith and news for 20 years. His stories have appeared in Baptist Press, Christianity Today, The Christian Post, the Leaf-Chronicle, the Toronto Star and the Knoxville News-Sentinel. 

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