Erika Kirk’s Turning Point

(RNS) — One year after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, his widow, Erika, is leading Turning Point USA — appealing to young women through a message of faith, forgiveness and biblical womanhood.

Can her vision hold together the movement he left behind?

RNS reporter Kathryn Post has followed that transformation.

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AMANDA HENDERSON: From RNS and the Institute for Religion, Politics, and Culture, this is Complexified, a podcast for the religiously curious and politically frustrated. I’m Amanda Henderson. One year after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, his widow Erika is leading Turning Point USA, appealing to young women through a message of faith, forgiveness, and biblical womanhood. Can her vision hold together the movement he left behind? RNS reporter Kathryn Post has followed that transformation. Kathryn, welcome to Complexified.

KATHRYN POST: It’s great to be back.

HENDERSON: Take me into the room where Erika Kirk opened Turning Point USA’s Women’s Leadership Summit.

POST: So…