So these authors would argue that much of what Evangelicals today believed to be the

plain teaching of Scripture is actually a product of historical attempts to justify racism,

sexism, nationalism, capitalism, and the oppressive status quo.

Welcome to the Alisa Childers Podcast. Have a great guest for you today, Neil Shenvie.

Many of you are already familiar with Neil's work as he interacts with ideas like critical theory,

critical race theory. Today we're going to talk about deconstruction. We've done a lot of podcasts

on deconstruction on this channel and I really wanted to talk to Neil about this because in my mind,

we have sort of two camps when it comes to defining what deconstruction is. So I have defined it

somewhere along the lines of like a systematic dismantling of Christians belief that they

group in the church. They sort of systematically dismantle those beliefs very often,

rejecting a lot of those beliefs, sometimes walking into a more progressive type of Christianity.

And others walk away from the faith altogether. Some come back, some come back to a broader sense

of spirituality. But I think we always use this term and we don't really drill down into what we mean

because there's another group that sort of sees deconstruction as a positive thing. Maybe this

is something Christians should do. Should we deconstruct our faith? So we're going to talk about all

those things today with Neil Shenvie. Neil of course attended Princeton University, actually got saved

while he was attending Berkeley. And he has his PhD in theoretical chemistry. And he's been on

the podcast before to share his story. So definitely go back in the archives to look at that one.

But Neil, so glad to have you back. Thanks, Lee. So thanks for inviting me. Absolutely. So you,

I noticed some tweets that you had been putting out there recently. And it got me really thinking

more about deconstruction. How we're defining that. And so a lot of people are talking about

deconstruction. This is something that seems to all of the sudden just be this big movement

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