#64 Rhett and Link: What to Make of All These Deconstruction Stories, with Matthew Mittelberg

The Alisa Childers Podcast

Alisa Childers

Christianity, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 6 March 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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What should Christians make of all the deconstruction stories we find our social media newsfeeds? I invited apologist Matthew Mittelberg on the show to talk with me about the recent deconversion stories of Rhett and Link of the Good Mythical Morning YouTube channel. Matthew grew up in an environment of apologetics and evangelism, and also grew up as a fan of Rhett and Link before their deconversions. He brought some meaningful insights to the conversation, and helps us understand why these particular deconversion stories have proven to be so powerful and persuasive.

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0:00.0	Hey friends, Alisa Childers here.
0:12.4	The spiritual deconstruction stories of ret and link of the Good Mythical Morning YouTube
0:16.8	channel have gotten quite a bit of attention.
0:19.1	Today I'm going to talk with a special guest about the videos they made chronicling their
0:23.0	journey.
0:30.5	We're going to get to today's topic in just a moment, but if you're a regular listener
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1:04.4	to get it into the news feeds of more people, to get it on the radar of more people.
1:08.2	So if you could help us out with that, that would be so great.
1:11.7	My guest today is Matthew Middleberg, who is a full-time RZIM fellow and he's based in
1:18.6	Atlanta, Georgia.
1:20.4	I asked Matthew to do this episode with me today because he was raised in an environment
1:25.2	of apologetics, anti-vangelism.
1:27.2	His dad is Mark Middleberg, who writes and teaches in these areas.
1:31.2	So Matthew has grown up surrounded by all of this.
1:35.0	He also grew up as a fan of RET and Link of the Good Mythical Morning YouTube channel.
1:42.3	And so he, I feel like he has a really special and unique perspective to bring to this discussion,
1:48.1	not just as an apologist, but as somebody who really loves these guys and grew up watching
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