Overview

• At a Sept. 21 public memorial at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, Erika Kirk delivered a eulogy for her husband, Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.
• She urged men to be the spiritual head of their homes and “leaders worth following,” stressing that wives are not servants or rivals but partners as “one flesh.”
• Speaking to women, she called for virtue, urged guarding the heart, and described motherhood as a mother’s “single most important ministry.”
• She presented marriage as outward-facing service to others, calling it “a living testimony of the gospel,” rather than merely a private contract.
• She highlighted forgiveness and linked Charlie Kirk’s work to helping the “lost boys of the West,” urging a constructive path for alienated young men.