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The sign outside the little Baptist congregation in Sewickley read simply: “In Memory of Charlie Kirk 1993-2025.” It was one of dozens of images on Facebook feeds showing houses of worship honoring Kirk since he was murdered while speaking at Utah Valley University. On the steps of the Pittsburgh City-County building on Grant Street in the center of the city, hundreds graced the portico, joining in prayer and remembrance. Over in Harrison City in Westmoreland County, the next evening, hundreds parked their cars at Nicassio Fields and filled the building. All joined in prayer for unity. Not far from there, my family’s little Catholic parish has grown with mostly new families joining, something records show was already happening in the past year. The Diocese of Greensburg said it will not know what the increase looks like until it does its annual count in October. However, some parish priests said privately they have found more engagement with young people after Mass in the past two weeks. Pastor Jason Howard of The Sanctuary Church in Pittsburgh, a nondenominational Christian congregation that is made up predominantly of young people, said the surge of people who came to services the first Sunday after Kirk’s murder didn’t wane last Sunday. “There were still public transportation buses filled with kids pouring into church last week,” he said, adding, “Since the Pitt Purpose revival we had on campus last week, we’ve been overwhelmed with young people curious to attend our services this week.” The Pitt for Jesus revival was a student-athlete event held on campus that attracted over 600 young people, 80 of whom were baptized at the event. To date, over 30 athletes at the University of Pittsburgh have made public declarations of faith and have even started a Pitt football team Bible study. It was begun by senior tight end Jake Overmanz when he sensed a calling to reach his teammates and other student athletes with the Gospel. These are all anecdotal accounts of a growth in people, young and not so young, who have been moved toward faith and purpose. That movement has accelerated since the assassination of Kirk, but it has been an undercurrent in our culture since last summer. Since Kirk’s murder on Sept. 10, posts have flooded X, Facebook, TikTok, and Instagram—celebrating his words in life while lamenting how vilified he was in death—offering testimony to a renewed return to faith. In many ways, we are not OK. The decline of faith has left a void, and people have tried to fill it with politics, social media, gaming, and countless other distractions. Yet none of these substitutes provides the deeper sense of purpose we were made to seek. Over the past few decades, the erosion of religion and the rise of political polarization have gone hand in hand. As faith receded, the longing for meaning, belonging and community did not disappear—it was redirected. Too often, that hunger has been channeled into the far less healthy pursuit of politics. Faith heals and unites, but politics, especially when played out online, strips away our humanity. Whether it’s a professional sparring in good faith or an anonymous troll hurling insults, if your purpose in life becomes demonizing those you oppose, the words you post will carry real consequences. Young people raised in this environment are already showing, at least anecdotally, that political engagement alone cannot define them. Whether this shift endures will depend largely on the unifying forces now drawing them back toward faith. COPYRIGHT 2025 CREATORS.COM  We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post We Are Not OK, but There Is Hope appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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This is completely and utterly deranged… Resurfaced text messages from Jay Jones, who is the Democrat Party’s nominee for Virginia Attorney General, reveal some pretty disturbing and violent fantasies. In a series of texts from 2022, Jay Jones told his colleague that then-GOP House Speaker Todd Gilbert should be shot and killed. He also took aim at Gilbert’s family, including his two young children. See the disgusting texts here for yourself: The private messages offer a disturbing glimpse into how Jones — who is looking to oust incumbent Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares this fall — describes his political adversaries in private conversations. pic.twitter.com/vvbtcn4vIQ — National Review (@NRO) October 3, 2025 Here’s a closer look at the text messages: The National Review was the first to report on the messages. Here’s an excerpt from the original report, which provides some additional context: On August 8, 2022, a Republican state legislator received a disturbing string of early-morning text messages from a former colleague, Jay Jones, this year’s Democratic nominee for Virginia attorney general. Jones, who at the time had recently resigned from the state house after a brief stint representing Norfolk, had strong feelings about how the political class was eulogizing recently deceased former state legislator Joe Johnson Jr., a moderate Democrat with a long tenure in Virginia politics. Republican legislators like House Speaker Todd Gilbert had begun making public statements honoring Johnson’s memory and political legacy, and some of those statements were making the rounds in state legislative group chats. Around 8 a.m., Jones shared those feelings with his former state legislative colleague, Republican House Delegate Carrie Coyner. In a series of text messages obtained by National Review, Jones derided Johnson’s political centrism and scoffed at the “glowing” tributes that were being made in his honor by Republicans in the wake of his death. “Damn that was for mark,” he wrote to Coyner, suggesting he’d meant to send the texts to someone else. And yet that realization didn’t stop Jones from joking about what “that POS” Gilbert “would say about me if I died.” Then, the conversation took a dark turn. “If those guys die before me,” Jones wrote, referencing the Republican colleagues who were publicly honoring the deceased Johnson’s memory, “I will go to their funerals to piss on their graves” to “send them out awash in something.” Jones then suggested that, presented with a hypothetical situation in which he had only two bullets and was faced with the choice of murdering then-Speaker of the House Todd Gilbert or two dictators, he’d shoot Gilbert “every time,” prompting pushback from his former colleague: The private messages offer a disturbing glimpse into how Jones — who is looking to oust incumbent Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares this fall — describes his political adversaries in private conversations. The violent rhetoric complicates an already contentious and competitive race roughly a month out from Election Day in Virginia, where early voting began on September 19. Asked about the years-old text exchange, Coyner condemned Jones’s rhetoric and said she sent screenshots of the conversation to Gilbert that day. She said she and Jones haven’t spoken since, aside from a brief conversation about policy issues. “On August 8, 2022 I had a text conversation with Jay Jones, what he said was not just disturbing but disqualifying for anyone who wants to seek public office,” she told NR in a statement. “Jay Jones wished violence on the children of a colleague and joked about shooting Todd Gilbert. It’s disgusting and unbecoming of any public official.” In case you’re wondering, here’s a photo of Todd Gilbert with his lovely wife and kids — all of whom Jay Jones apparently wished were dead: These are the kids Jay Jones wants to kill btw https://t.co/euCe8Tx1W6 pic.twitter.com/mBw4mc34PF — Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) October 4, 2025 I can’t fathom ever wishing violence on a political opponent or their family — especially innocent children. This guy is obviously messed up in the head and definitely not the kind of man anyone should trust with a position of power! Calls are growing for him to immediately drop out of the race. Winsome Earle-Sears, who is the Republican candidate for Virginia Governor, held a press conference to condemn Jay Jones: WINSOME EARLE-SEARS responds to Dem AG candidate Jay Jones’ violent text messages: “The calls for hate and violence are coming from the mouths of the Democrat Party’s leaders.” pic.twitter.com/IaU8LIIz0r — Fox News (@FoxNews) October 5, 2025 In a post on X, she noted that her Democrat opponent has not called for him to drop out of the race: Jay Jones literally fantasized about killing a man and two children and Abigail Spanberger still doesn’t have the guts to tell him to drop out. pic.twitter.com/8CAjNqqWBI — Winsome Earle-Sears (@winwithwinsome) October 3, 2025 Even the Vice President of the United States called for Democrats to join him in calling for Jones to drop out: The Democrat candidate for AG in Virginia has been fantasizing about murdering his political opponents in private messages. I’m sure the people hyperventilating about sombrero memes will join me in calling for this very deranged person to drop out of the race. https://t.co/ZapsWc9VFG — JD Vance (@JDVance) October 4, 2025   Jay Jones has responded to the deserved backlash against him…with a totally lackluster ‘apology.’ Watch his attempt to put this all behind him here: WATCH: 8 News grills Virginia Democrat AG candidate Jay Jones who wrote that he wanted to put “two bullets to the head” of the GOP leader: “A lot of politics is about trust. I can think of nothing more horrific than a mother having to hold her dying child. How can Virginians… pic.twitter.com/zZh1NNtAhG — Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) October 4, 2025 WATCH: 8 News grills Virginia Democrat AG candidate Jay Jones who wrote that he wanted to put “two bullets to the head” of the GOP leader: “A lot of politics is about trust. I can think of nothing more horrific than a mother having to hold her dying child. How can Virginians trust a man who said something so horrific, so callously?” Jones: “Well, again, I am so deeply, deeply sorry for what I said, and I wish that it hadn’t happened, and I would take it back if I could.” Jones clearly doesn’t want to deal with the consequences of his actions. CBS News also shared this ‘apology’ statement from Jones: In a statement to CBS News, Jones said he took full responsibility for his actions. “I want to issue my deepest apology to Speaker Gilbert and his family. Reading back those words made me sick to my stomach. I am embarrassed, ashamed, and sorry… I have reached out to Speaker Gilbert to apologize directly to him, his wife Jennifer, and their children. I cannot take back what I said; I can only take full accountability and offer my sincere apology,” Jones said. What do you think? Do you accept his lame apology? Or should Jones be forced to drop out of the race for his threats of political violence?