Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. I am so pumped for you to listen to this conversation

that I'm having today with Dr. Neil Shenvie. We are going to talk about critical theory

and y'all, it is about to blow your mind. So this is a longer episode and we honestly

could have gone on for maybe another hour or two. You just don't realize how insidious

critical theory is until you listen to this conversation. You are going to want to pause.

You're going to want to take notes. You're probably going to want to listen to it twice.

You're going to want to, you're going to want to send this to your pastor. You're going

to want to send it to your Christian friends, your secular friends, your mom, your dad, your

brothers, your sisters, your boyfriend, your spouse. Everyone you know, you want to listen

to this episode. It's absolutely fascinating and I'm just so excited for you to listen

to it. Okay, since I think I've hyped it up enough without further ado, here is Dr.

Neil Shenvie. Neil, thank you so much for joining me. Thank you, Ali. Can you tell everyone

who you are and what you do? Oh, my name is Dr. Neil Shenvie and I am actually a state

home homeschooling dad at the moment, but I am trained in theoretical chemistry and worked

in academia for about 15 years. Awesome. And can you tell everyone how you came to study

critical theory and maybe more specifically critical race theory? Yeah. So we have to go

back a little bit. I became a Christian in graduate school. I grew up in a very loving

home, but not in a religious household. And I came to faith through knowing my future wife,

Christina, through reading CS Lewis, through going to church and kind of realizing that

I'd built my life on being the very best and the very smartest. And then you come to me

and say, actually, you're a sinner who needs forgiveness. And your belief in God is just

this vague build of bare God that you've never really wrestled with the real God. That was

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