Blog - Hugh Hewitt

Saturday, September 20, 2025

Ed Morrisey tells the tale, “House Republicans offered a resolution ahead of this weekend’s memorial for Charlie Kirk condemning his assassination and honoring his public life. These kinds of resolutions usually generate little publicity and even less pushback, as these measures do nothing more than express sentiment rather than legislate in any way…. fewer than half of House Democrats cast an aye for the Kirk resolution….” As if that alone was not bad enough, AOC took to the floor of the House later in the day to ‘splain herself – it’s horrifying.. . .

Friday, September 19, 2025

The producer did some math and concludes that there are a lot of people turning to Christ in the wake of the Kirk assassination.  He uses the language of “conversions” –  which raises the eyebrows of this old former youth ministry worker.  Conversions or “decisions for Christ” are the currency of evangelical ministry.  When Billy Graham gave an altar call, heads were counted and celebrated.  Many a fund-raising letter has gone out claiming, “our ministry has resulted in X decisions for Christ, help us get more!”  But there are decisions and then there are decisions.. . .

Thursday, September 18, 2025

Two things in the last 48 hours or so have helped me to understand on a new and deeper level why the murder of Charlie Kirk is so disturbing, and why efforts to not-quite-justify but be sympathetic with the murderer are even more so.  The first is John Campbell’s impassioned discussion with the host yesterday.  They headlined it, “His explanation will move you.”  That is even more true if you know John, which I do, though not exceedingly well.  That passion, and the deep emotions associated, drive me to continue to try and understand this evil.. . .

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

It is always winter, but never Christmas.  No one dare speak a word against the tyrant ruler of the kingdom.  But eventually the whispers begin, “Aslan is on the move.”  Santa shows up!  The snow begins to melt.  The tyrant witch is defeated.  If you do not know the story, shame on you.  We seem poised at a moment, after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, where there are rumors of something stirring – where maybe, just maybe God is moving in a big way.. . .

Tuesday, September 16, 2025

I have been a resident of East Tennessee for two and three quarters years now, but I still  suffer from a deep-seated “California flinch.”  What I mean by “California flinch” is when I dare express a conservative opinion, I expect to be attacked so I flinch to try and avoid the punch.  In early September I mentioned a stream of DMs I had been receiving.  Of course they were from California.  I was being verbally attacked despite the fact that I had not spoken to this individual since I left California.  The flinch is real because the attacks are real.. . .

Monday, September 15, 2025

Saturday just past I wrote, “One man killed another.  That will never make sense.  Motivation does not matter – it is just an evil act….Any meaning we try to assign to these events is, in some sense, an expression of narcissism….”  But I wonder if anybody really understands?. . .

Sunday, September 14, 2025

I have been quite vocal since the Kirk Assassination about the fact that the church must lead us out of this.  Mark Antonio Wright wrote a piece for National Review entitled “There’s Only One Way Back from the Brink.”  In it, he quotes, “‘Americans are not at war against each other,’ Benji Backer, a conservative activist and conservationist, wrote yesterday. ‘What we’re up against is a scary + rising minority of violent lunatics fueled by hate and division.’”  While that is absolutely true, I think it is still falling short of the mark.  Why is that minority rising and more active now?. . .

Saturday, September 13, 2025

Apparent culprit now in hand, the assassination of Charlie Kirk is rapidly evolving into one of those pivotable events that everyone will try to make sense of and onto which everyone will try and impress some meaning – but in which, inherently, there is no sense, no meaning.  The NYPost yesterday tried, briefly, to make it about Mormonism, but there is nothing there.  Some say it is about politics, some say about religion.  Some celebrate Kirk, some celebrate Christ, and some are just ugly.  All of it alienates me.. . .

Friday, September 12, 2025

I can’t shake the funk.  I mean I know from assassination.  I have been alive for JFK…1968 (MLK and RFK)…the nearly successful attempt on Ronald Reagan…most recently Trump.  Not to mention a handful of less spectacular attempts on others.  I hope and pray my generation is the only one to see this much assassination.  But Charlie Kirk is different.. . .

Thursday, September 11, 2025

I have seen pastors “tastefully” remind me of “offensive” things Charlie Kirk said.  I have seen pastors darn near deify him.  I have seen pastors declare (again) culture war.  I have seen pastors call for gun control.  And, perhaps most shamefully, I have seen pastors say nothing at all lest they ignite a “political firestorm” within their congregation.  The assassination of Charlie Kirk is an act of evil – and the church MUST address the evil if it is to remain the church.  For the church, nothing else should matter.. . .