Editor’s Note: a guest post by our old friend and peripatetic Louisiana conservative activist Jensen Young.

I’m still shaking my head over the Charlie Kirk assassination like many of you are.  I’m sure plenty of other churches like my own at Jefferson Baptist (link below) in Baton Rouge addressed it on Sunday.

In Louisiana, we have experienced death of a conservative young rising political rock star in Luke Letlow who left behind a family like Charlie did. We’ve seen the Louisiana Legend himself Majority Whip Steve Scalise survive an assassination attempt on his own life. Both were very hard, yet this hits a different spot, a different depth that I can’t really describe yet with words.

Those of us who have been in the various Louisiana conservative political battles that have experienced either of the other 2 events described above have a duty to not only be available for each other but especially for our Turning Point student brethren who are experiencing this at a level I can’t even fathom. When a conservative high school kid who I usually go to lunch with his family after church’s only question to me on Sunday was about Charlie Kirk you really realize this really hit differently with the younger generation.

How to grieve, carry on with necessities of life, practice your faith and carry on in the conservative political battles that need fought is a difficult balancing act even for the experienced amongst us. If you have any Turning Point students or staff members in your life, reach out to them this week. Check on them. Buy them lunch. Be intentional. Tell them it’s ok to reach out to a pastor or priest they trust. If they don’t have one and you do arrange the meeting with yours. It’s ok if the meeting with the pastor or priest doesn’t happen this week, just realize it probably needs to happen at some point sooner rather than later. It’s ok that you don’t have every answer your friend needs and you may be at different levels of processing this yourself.

In closing, as I was walking to go tailgate at LSU on Saturday, I was glad to see one of the fraternity houses had a simple banner “Pray 4 the Kirks.” That is the one thing we should continue to do.