Gospel & Politics: Neil Shenvi

Ask the Pastor with J.D. Greear

J.D. Greear

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

This week on Ask the Pastor features a conversation between Pastor J.D. Greear and Neil Shenvi where they discuss the complexities of critical theory, its implications for society, and how it intersects with Christian beliefs. Neil is another member of the Summit Church with a Ph.D. from Berkeley in Theoretical Chemistry.

A glimpse inside this episode:

* Race is a social construct, which aligns with a Christian worldview.
* Privilege is context-dependent and cannot be viewed in absolutes.
* Intersectionality complicates discussions of race and gender for Christians.
* Critical theory can lead to false assumptions about disparities in society.
* Christians should advocate for justice based on biblical principles.
* The church's mission should focus on the gospel above all.
* Addressing systemic injustice requires evidence and context.
* Equity should not be equated with equality of outcome.
* The family unit is crucial for addressing social issues like poverty.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey everybody. Welcome to Ask the Pastor. Those of you joining us live on YouTube, it's not live. It's recorded. But joining us on YouTube watching this, listening to it. We're really glad you're here. My name is Matt Love. I'm not here with J.D. Greer today because we're in a gospel and
0:21.8	politics series. Pastor J.D. has been having some really amazing conversations with a lot of
0:26.3	different amazing guests. And we have another one today, Neil Shinvi, who is a member of the
0:31.2	Summit Church. He has a PhD from Berkeley in theoretical chemistry. I literally didn't know
0:36.9	chemistry could be theoretical. I thought it was either real or not real. But theoretical chemistry. I literally didn't know chemistry could be theoretical.
0:38.3	I thought it was either real or not real.
0:40.4	But theoretical chemistry sounds about as complicated as it gets.
0:42.8	Point is Neil's smart.
0:44.9	And he might be the smartest person to ever appear on the podcast.
0:48.4	It's hard to say for sure.
0:49.7	We'll have a debate about that soon.
0:51.7	But he's done quite a few things, and I'll let Pastor J.D.
0:53.7	share more about in a second.
0:55.5	But he has done a lot of research on critical theory
0:58.1	with various things that he's published
1:00.1	and even a recent book tackling that topic.
1:03.6	So this is just going to be a great person to talk to.
1:05.9	So let's dive in with Pastor J.D. and Neil Shinby.
1:13.2	Today I am delighted to be able to talk with a guy who's actually been very helpful for me
1:18.2	as a dialogue partner, been very challenging. I've been a great source of my own learning
1:22.8	on many of these topics we're going to talk about, and that is Dr. Neil Shinvey, who is a
1:27.2	member of the
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