Charlie Kirk memorial underscores tensions between radical grace and radical politics

Sep 23, 2025 - 13:00
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Charlie Kirk memorial underscores tensions between radical grace and radical politics
In 2003, soon-to-be New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller tried to explain what was happening at the intersection of evangelical Christianity and the Republican Party to an audience that was most assuredly anxious. Democrats were worried in those days about creeping theocracy; that born-again President George W. Bush was using the post-9/11 conflict with…