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The Becket Cook Show

Is Jordan Peterson a Christian ...or NOT? Bethel McGrew Interview

The Becket Cook Show

The Becket Cook Show

News, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

5921 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Support The Becket Cook Show on Patreon! In today’s episode, I chat with writer, teacher, cultural critic, and mathematics PhD, Bethel McGrew about the faith of Jordan Peterson. We discuss the New Atheists, like Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens,...

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You are listening to the Beckett Cook show with your host Beckett Cook. For more information about Beckett

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and his ministry, visit his website at Beckett Cook.com. To help support the

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0:26.0

Please consider subscribing to the podcast and leaving a five-star rating. rating. Hey guys, happy Thanksgiving.

0:40.0

Today we are going to have a very interesting episode. We're going to be talking

0:45.3

about Jordan Peterson and his faith and my guest is Dr. Bethel McGrew and she is a freelance writer, a cultural critic.

0:55.0

She's written for publications such as National Review, First Things, The Spectator, and many more. She's also a teacher and a PhD in mathematics.

1:07.3

So what's interesting about this episode is Bethel and I were talking a couple of weeks ago and I wanted to do an episode with her on one of her articles, one of her many many articles.

1:20.0

And she ended up sending me this one on Jordan Peterson and the title is called

1:27.0

Missing God and the subtitle is Jordan Peterson and the decline of atheism.

1:33.8

And what's really funny about this is I had dinner

1:37.7

with Connie Selica and John Tesh a couple weekends ago.

1:56.0

And we had this a great dinner at this restaurant in Beverly Hills and when we walked in and sat down we noticed that right next to us and a booth right next to us was Jordan Peterson and his wife. And so we were like, whoa, because Connie and John are fans of Jordan Peterson and so, and I am too, and I've known about him for a long long time and so

2:07.6

After dinner he he actually got up with his wife to leave and we kind of stopped him and we're like, hey, we love you, we like we love your work.

2:18.6

And we ended up in this conversation with him

2:25.0

just bluntly, she said, you're a Christian, right?

2:29.0

And he said, his answer was very revealing,

2:32.8

which we'll get into in the episode.

2:35.2

But, and then we, I told him,

2:40.2

well, actually Connie told him about my show

2:42.3

and she said, you need to go on Beckett show.

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