One week after conservative commentator Charlie Kirk was shot and killed, Christian music superstar Lauren Daigle addressed the tragedy and America’s “spiritual battle.” On Sept. 17, she posted, “We need [God’s] healing!!! I’m pretty sure that sentiment is bi-partisan.”
The Grammy Award-winning artist also launched a prayer and fasting effort, inviting people to join her online as she reads Scripture, offers insights, and prays aloud every day in September.
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Daigle shared clips from her pre-concert Q&A in Oklahoma City on Sept. 10, shortly after Kirk was murdered at a college event in Utah. She told the audience she was “very sad” about the news, adding, “Violence is never the answer for anything.”
Daigle, who met Charlie and Erika Kirk a few months ago, called the couple “real Jesus people.” She said she admired Kirk’s willingness to let people disagree with him and to try to “find solutions together,” saying, “That is the way of a beautiful future for our children.”
It’s “totally okay” to not agree with Kirk politically, added Daigle, 34. But the singer appreciated that Kirk was “trying to bring goodness and the hope of Jesus to the world, [and] to lose that now is really painful, and it’s sad.”
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Lauren Daigle Laments Lack of Respect for Life
In her post about the murder of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, Lauren Daigle described how the tragedy has affected her. “I became extremely anxious and deeply heartbroken after learning of Charlie’s death, truly in shock that we have diluted human life to whether or not [people] offend us, whether we differ or agree,” she wrote. “Is that all people are now? Just vessels carrying an opinion? Do we have no respect for human life?”
Polarization among Americans is “horrific” and “barbaric,” Daigle said. She lamented that “our forefathers…died for freedom just so we could kill people we disagree with.”
The problem goes beyond politics to “a spiritual battle,” Daigle wrote. “Good versus evil. Light versus dark.” Citing Ephesians 6, she urged Christians to put on God’s armor, “bathe in Scripture,” and remember “that God is sovereign and that He will overcome evil with good.”
Daigle recalled meeting a woman who worked as a Rosie the Riveter during World War II, serving her country with pride and joy. “She told me that her greatest concern for this generation and where we are headed is the lack of respect for one another and the lack of delight in humankind and the simple things,” Daigle wrote. “This assassination and the brutally heartless comments celebrating such prove [that woman’s] assessment to be true.”
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The singer also lamented the impact of social media, saying it has “RUINED our proximity to one another,” turned individuals into black-and-white text, and prevented people from offering grace to one another. “What is a society without grace?” Daigle asked.
Regarding her delay in speaking out about Kirk’s death, Daigle wrote:
Some of us actually don’t put social media first. We actually process with our loved ones, our friends, our families. We sort out what grief looks like in the PRIVATE versus the PUBLIC. Some of us are actually still human. I’m not silent; I’m angry and I’m in shock. Give me a freaking second to absorb, sit with God, and stop looking to “celebrities” for your cure. I will never and don’t ever plan to be your fix. My timeline will never be yours. Let that sink in.
Do we have no respect for human life? asked Lauren Daigle.Click to Post
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