Some who claim to be courageous fall short. Now is the time to stand up and shout! On Monday, September 15. 2025 The Federalist ran this headline, “Want To Honor Charlie Kirk’s Legacy? Emulate His Moral Courage.”
I talked to a friend recently about courage, and he made what I thought was a really profound point worth thinking about in depth: Not all courage is the same. For example, there is moral courage and physical courage.
Physical courage is the soldier who braves the hail of bullets to complete his mission or to save his brother-in-arms. It is the fireman who risks his life to run into a burning building to save people who might otherwise die without his help. It is the mother who instinctively shields her child from danger using her own body.
Physical courage is generally the type of courage we reward in modern society because it is so obvious and visceral. It is easy to see and easy to depict. We know physical courage when we see it, and we also know physical cowardice when we see it.
But there is another type of courage that we don’t often recognize and praise, and that is moral courage. Moral courage is hard to depict in a mural or a statue. A monument to men planting a flag at Iwo Jima just seems more dramatic than someone calmly standing up and speaking the truth at a school board meeting, or telling a friend his behavior is ungodly, or internally vowing to no longer silently abide the lies of a culture that tells you boys can become girls or unborn babies aren’t people.
“The assassination of Charlie Kirk just may be a turning point for America.” said Thomas Robb, National Director of the Knights Party of the Ku Klux Klan, based in Harrision, Arkansas. “First off, in my opinion, Charlie Kirk was fooled as many are when it comes to Christianity and its teachings. But that’s neither here nor there when it comes to what I have to say. “I see on different social media sites where this White Nationalist group did or said this, while mean mugging the camera. Different organizations over the summer rallied here or there giving their message. Groups gathered in the streets marching with the banner or flag of their organization. And you see the same the same groups doing the same thing year after year. Does that take courage? Sure, but what is being done? If an organization forms with no clear path, mission, or goals, meaning it just exists in name only, what good is it? The Knights Party doesn’t just exist, we show true courage every day of the year. While other organizations are bickering between each other, we are behind the scenes making real life changes happen. This is what Charlie Kirk did, and this is why he was assassinated. He was a threat to our enemies and it took courage to do the things he did. Unfortunately, there are casualties in our fight, and sadly, Charlie Kirk was one of them. Now isn’t the time to shrink back in fear to stand for what is right. Do the opposite, come forward in the full armour of God. Show our enemies they haven’t defeated us, no, quite the contrary, they have stirred a bees nest that was better off left alone.”
