In case other people didn’t already make this connection:

Alex Harris, the man in episode 4 who explains Generation Joshua, is Joshua Harris’s younger brother.

(For context, Joshua Harris wrote a very popular fundie-esque book in the late 90’s called “I kissed dating goodbye”. It promoted courting and extreme purity culture, but it became very popular in non-fundie and even non-conservative churches)

Alex Harris and his twin brother Brett (ie Joshua Harris’s younger brothers) were super politically engaged in their teens and wrote a book called ‘Do Hard Things’ to encourage other Christian teens to get involved. It was an odd mix of pep-talk telling you that you didn’t need to wait for adulthood to ‘do hard things’ and part insidious playbook on how to get ultra conservative kids into politics.

I read this book in my teens, but completely forgot about it until I saw Alex in Shiny Happy People. Doing some digging afterwards I pieced together that he did indeed make significant contributions to starting Generation Joshua and personally worked on the campaigns of several politicians before getting into Harvard Law. It seems that sometime at or after Harvard he became far less conservative. Based on his part in SHP he seems pretty against it now.

It just thought it was a very interesting connection for those who grew up with “I Kissed Dating Goodbye”! Clearly both brothers have left the fold.