Andy Schmitz is a chaplain in the U.S. Army. He is the incoming bioethicist at the U.S. Army Medical Center of Excellence. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Christian Ethics and Public Theology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and he is a fellow in the University of Chicago’s Siegler Fellowship in Clinical Medical Ethics. The views expressed in this column are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Department of the Army, Department of War, or U.S. Government.
Towards the end of his life, Charlie Kirk increasingly relied on natural law reasoning for persuasion, reflecting his belief in the persuasive power of a universally intelligible created order
Andy P. SchmitzFebruary 2, 2026