TL;DR
Charlie Kirk’s sixth and final book, about keeping a weekly Sabbath, finished in the summer of 2025 and published in December, three months after he was killed. Erika Kirk wrote the foreword, and it went to number one on Amazon on release.
The sixth book came out after he was gone.
Charlie Kirk finished Stop, in the Name of God in the summer of 2025, on a family vacation in Maine. He was killed at Utah Valley University on September 10. The book was published on December 9, 2025, with a foreword by his widow, Erika Kirk, who had taken over as chief executive of Turning Point USA.
When I wrote my tribute to him, I learned he had written six books. I write books for a living and I had no idea.
What is Stop, in the Name of God about?
Rest. It’s the least political of his books by a long way.
The book tells how he came to it. By 2021 he was running a fast-growing organization, hosting three hours of radio a day and drinking eight cups of coffee to keep up. That summer a pastor on Turning Point’s board asked him whether he honored the Sabbath. He didn’t. That night he looked up every verse in the Bible about it, and he started keeping one. Kirk dedicated the book to Dennis Prager, whose work he credited with leading him there.
The practice he describes was simple and hard. From Friday evening to Saturday evening his phone went into a drawer. No work, no email, no texts, just his wife and his children. He admitted it was hard not to answer messages. Erika later said that when the phone went into the drawer, he was all in for the family.
The chapters build the case in steps. They start with Genesis and “Nothing Doesn’t Create Something,” move through the history of the Sabbath and what Kirk called the age of counterfeit worship, and then argue that the Sabbath improves your health and your sleep.
Later chapters take on the theology directly, including “Are Christians Bound to the Sabbath?”, with lists of reasons on both sides. Kirk concludes that the particular day matters less than keeping one, and that Jesus argued over how to keep the Sabbath, never over whether to. The book ends with “Sabbath Made Simple,” a practical guide to starting.
Did Stop, in the Name of God sell well?
It went to number one on Amazon on release, and stores ran out. Winning Team Publishing printed 200,000 copies, and about 60,000 sold on Amazon alone in the first days, according to the publisher.
What does Stop, in the Name of God show about Charlie Kirk?
Another side of him. The public knew the folding table and the microphone. This book is about putting both down for a day.
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My tribute to Charlie Kirk: the folding table, the Prove Me Wrong sign and the young man who let people finish their sentences.
