Last week I made my first visit, or pilgrimage even, to a Jordan Peterson rally in Oklahoma in the United States. I and my YouTube colleagues from "Catholic Unscripted" had been invited to a behind-the-stage event following his appearance.
Although I had once been invited to take part in an academic seminar probing Peterson’s ideas with him in person, and followed him assiduously on YouTube, I had never seen him in live “amphitheatre-action-mode” before.
Within a few days of my visit, the Internet was awash with a hit piece in the US Catholic publication Crisis Magazine by Scott Ventureyra denouncing Peterson as a dangerous phenomenon to Christians. This article was designed to make Christians anxious about Peterson and mistrust him. You can tell the difference between a hit piece and a reasoned analysis: the former tells only one half of the story; the latter both sides.
