Recent news headlines — such as transgender athletes in women’s sports, sexual identity instruction in schools, whether the term woman can be defined, and various forms of censorship — are all fertile ground for Christian author, speaker, and apologist Neil Shenvi’s goal to help people understand critical theory.

“It’s an umbrella category that seeks to understand how society is divided in terms of dominate and subordinate groups by power dynamics,” Shenvi said, explaining that critical race theory, critical white studies, and gender ideologies fall under critical theory.