Kate Shellnutt: I interviewed Canadian apologist Wesley Huff last week. In the wake of his viral YouTube debate and appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience, the parachurch ministry he works for had to adjust staffing just to field inquiries and interview requests.  

I had a 30-minute spot to interview him over Zoom. I knew it would take longer than that to get through all of my questions, so I front-loaded the most important ones and redirected the conversation if he began sharing a response I’d heard already. We ended up speaking for 10 or 15 minutes more; I’m always grateful for more time, but you can’t count on it if people are on tight schedules. 

I don’t usually share personal stuff in interviews—just where I live or my background covering a certain topic for CT—but I wanted to mention to Huff at the end that my husband, whose recent conversion was spurred by online apologists, had become a huge fan of his. So I had a couple minutes to share that story, and in turn, Huff told me about how hundreds have reached out with similar testimonies: “I think that God is doing something in this particular moment.”