Pat Sawyer

Nov 2, 2024 | christianpost.com | Neil Shenvi |Pat Sawyer

One of the most interesting assessments of critical theory is an essay by Conor Barnes, a former self-professed anarchist, who describes how he left the social justice movement in an essay entitled “Sad Radicals.” He and his compatriots were, in his own words, committed to “deconstructing gender, monogamy, and mental health.” They “lived and breathed concepts and tools like call-outs, intersectionality, cultural appropriation, trigger warnings, safe spaces, privilege theory, and rape...

Jun 17, 2024 | theaquilareport.com | Neil Shenvi |Pat Sawyer

While women in many countries legitimately constitute an oppressed group that is consistently subjected to cruel and unjust treatment, this is not the case in most of the Western world. Affirming the proposition that “women in America are oppressed” requires us to redefine “oppression” not in terms of concrete unjust treatment, but in terms of more shadowy and contested social norms. The most relevant examples are male eldership within the church and male headship within marriage.

Jun 6, 2024 | cbmw.org | Neil Shenvi |Pat Sawyer

Topics: Complementarianism, Egalitarianism, Feminism By Neil Shenvi and Pat SawyerShare: Editor’s Note: The following article appears in the Spring 2024 issue of Eikon. 1.

Jan 24, 2024 | merionwest.com | Neil Shenvi |Pat Sawyer |Erich Prince

“Just as wokeness has eroded traditional liberal values like free speech, freedom of thought, merit, and individualism at an institutional level, it has also eroded traditional Christian doctrine within churches, seminaries, and Christian publications.”he late 2010s and early 2020s witnessed what many cultural commentators have dubbed “the Great Awokening.” Entertainment, sports, politics, and the corporate sphere were suddenly suffused with the language of social justice and critical theory.

Nov 3, 2023 | colsoncenter.libsyn.com | Timothy Padgett |Neil Shenvi |Pat Sawyer

Dr. Timothy Padgett, Resident Theologian for the Colson Center, hosts a conversation at our latest Breakpoint Forum with Christian scholars Neil Shenvi, Ph.D. and Pat Sawyer, Ph.D. as they break down the roots of Critical Theory and how it’s impacted our culture.