In a day and age of fleeting stories fed to us by a constant conveyor belt of crisis and frenzy, keeping us all in a constant state of agitation with little ability to focus on the meaningful, what cannot be ignored is that our nation recently witnessed the first national political assassination in over 50 years. In the wake of that, the memorial service for the victim, Charlie Kirk, had the largest viewership of any memorial service in U.S. history.

The service was a call to prayer and faith as much as it was to action.  It was a revival and crusade—especially for youth who the memorialized was especially close to and worked with.  It was a deep moment, a weighty moment—and a reproach to all the unimportant and empty figures our elite media propagates. The impact of that service will have lasting power in an age too celebratory of the momentary; calling all who watched, particularly the young, to the better angels of our nature.