Joe Schmid has been criticised for pivoting from agnostic to Catholic apologetics. There are people claiming he isn’t yet in a stable enough place to play a public role in promoting Catholicism. They say he should leave apologetics to the folks who have been Christian for longer. Some of this criticism comes from Protestant apologists with an obvious stake in how Schmid’s definitively Catholic conversion is received. Even so, the underlying question is worth considering: should recent converts – and particularly former public critics of Christianity – play a public role in defending the Faith?