You're listening to Breakpoint this week, where we're talking about the top stories of

the week from a Christian worldview.

Today we're excited to share with you the audio from our most recent Breakpoint Forum.

This was an in-depth discussion about critical theory with

two of the brightest minds on this subject right now, Neil Shenby and Pat Sawyer,

who have a new book out called Critical Dilemma. We're excited to be able to share this with

you. Stick around. Welcome to Breakpoint this week. From the Colson Center for

Christian Worldview, I'm Maria Bear. This week we are going to share the audio with you from our most recent Breakpoint Forum.

These are our occasional live online forums that we've been hosting that give us an opportunity to dive a little bit deeper into a topic and talk about it from a Christian worldview and to help you

Think through some of the major issues

That are really touching people all around us, our neighbors and friends, as well as our brothers and sisters in church.

This most recent breakpoint forum was about critical theory.

This has several different avenues. There's of course critical race theory, there's critical

queer theory, there's gender theory, but critical theory is kind of the overarching theme.

We were happy to welcome this time around Neil Shenvey and Pat Sawyer.

Neil Shenvy is a theoretical chemist and a Christian apologist who's written a lot about critical theory,

as well as Pat Sawyer, who has a PhD in cultural studies and

has written in particular he concentrated his studies on critical theory.

He is now a professor at the University of North Carolina at

Greensboro. They teamed up recently to write a new book called Critical Dilemma

and what they've really done helpfully in that book and they share with us here on this breakpoint forum is they break down

exactly what is critical theory, what are the roots of it in academia and

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