Home Opinion Charlie Kirk: A martyr for faith and freedomThe assassination of Charlie Kirk has sent shockwaves through the nation, especially among conservative Christians. By every measure of how Protestant Evangelicals understand martyrdom in our age, Charlie Kirk died as a martyr. Charlie Kirk was such a man. Charlie Kirk was, at his core, a Christian disciple whose faith shaped everything he said and did. Martin Luther King Jr. is rightly remembered as a Christian martyr because his civil rights work was born of his Christian calling.