Tim Allen Completes Bible Reading And Chooses Forgiveness
“Finished the entire Bible it’s been a 13 month word by word page by page no skimming journey,” Allen this week on X. “Humbled, enlightened and amazed at what I read and what I learned. I will rest and meditate on so much.”
It appears this won’t be a one-time effort, as Allen said he plans to do the whole thing again.
“I will begin it again,” he added.
Allen’s Bible Journey
In recent months Allen has been increasingly open about his Christian faith and how it’s reshaping his public voice. He even sat down with Bill Maher on the “Club Random” podcast for a frank, unsparing conversation about scripture and modern philosophy. The talk landed on the Apostle Paul and the limits of empty intellectualism.
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Allen has also spoken about a wound he’s carried for most of his life: his father’s death at the hands of a drunk driver when Allen was 11. That loss lodged deep and shaped how he viewed anger, justice, and mercy. For decades he admitted he struggled with offering forgiveness.
He has been sharing milestones from his reading process, too. “[I] finished the Old Testament, and it is such a gift when I get out of the way and the words and meaning flow,” he back in June 2025.
“This week I am now in the book of the Gospel of Paul. A Roman Jew familiar with Plato, Stoicism, and other Greek schools of thought. I am amazed in seven pages!”
Forgiveness Rooted In The Cross
Allen says a public moment of radical forgiveness helped unlock something for him. When Erika Kirk forgave the man accused of killing her husband on a stadium stage, her words hit Allen in a personal way and pushed him toward the hard work of grace.
“On the cross, our Savior said: ‘Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.’ That man — that young man — I forgive him. I forgive him because it’s what Christ did.
And it’s what Charlie would do,” Kirk said. “The answer to hate is not hate. The answer — we know from the gospel — is love.
Always love. Love for our enemies. Love for those who persecute us.”
Allen responded publicly about how that scene affected him. “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.”
The star went further and offered the words he has carried for decades. “I will say those words now as I type: ‘I forgive the man who killed my father.’ Peace be with you all.”
Gerald M. Dick, Allen’s father, died in November 1964 after his car was struck by a drunk driver, a tragedy Allen has described as life-defining. That history makes his move toward forgiveness both dramatic and deeply biblical, a portrait of grace replacing rage. It’s a tough, honest reminder that faith can transform pain into mercy.
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Now that he’s closed this chapter, Allen says he will meditate and let scripture settle in him. How this season of close reading will change his public life and private rhythms remains to be seen, but the choice of forgiveness is already a clear, public turning toward the gospel he’s studying.