Erika Kirk Inspires Tim Allen to Forgive Father’s Killer

Poet Emily Dickinson once stated, “Words have power.”

The words of forgiveness spoken Sunday by 👤Erika Kirk were so powerful, they led actor 🎬Tim Allen to forgive the drunk driver who took his father’s life more than sixty years ago, per Mediaite.

Kirk, widow of Turning Point USA founder 👤Charlie Kirk, spoke about forgiveness at a memorial service for her husband in Arizona. 👤Charlie Kirk was assassinated Sept. 10 in Utah.

“That young man, that young man…” 👤Erika Kirk said before quoting from the Bible. “On the cross, our savior said, ‘Father, forgive them, for they not know what they do.’”

“That man, that young man, I forgive him,” she said.

Allen took those words to heart by forgiving the drunk driver who killed his father when Allen was 11 years old.

“When 👤Erika Kirk spoke the words on the man who killed her husband: ‘That man… that young man… I forgive him.’ That moment deeply affected me,” Allen wrote on X.

“I have struggled for over 60 years to forgive the man who killed my Dad. I will say those words now as I type: ‘I forgive the man who killed my father,’” Allen said.

“Peace be with you all,” he concluded the post.

Allen’s father, real estate agent Gerald Dick, died in a 1964 crash caused by a drunk driver.

Tyler Robinson, 22, has been charged in 👤Charlie Kirk’s murder.

He is facing several charges, including aggravated murder, felony discharge of a firearm, obstruction of justice, witness tampering and violent offense in the presence of a child, per Fox News.