• The Reverend Michael Coren is the author of 18 books, several of them best-sellers, translated into a dozen languages. He hosted daily radio and TV shows for almost 20 years, and is now a Contributing Columnist for the Toronto Star, and appears regularly in the Globe and Mail, The Walrus, The Oldie, ipaper, TVOntario, The New Statesman, and numerous other publications in Canada and Britain. He has won numerous award and prizes across North America. He is a priest at St. Luke’s, Burlington. His latest book is The Rebel Christ.

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ARTICLES

Forgiveness Without an Apology

Of all the things I thought might happen in my life, my name being spoken by a film star on stage at the Royal Court

Faith is a Dialogue, Rather than a Rant

Earlier this year yet another street-preaching Christian was confronted by the police, this time in England on London’s Uxbridge High Street, not exactly renowned as

Wonder, Love and Prayer

Late February was not kind. Within the space of 24 hours two of my friends died, both with a suddenness that chilled me. One was

Living Shalom and Salam

I may be a Christian priest but I have three Jewish grandparents,so, to an anti-Semite I’m a Jew. Even worse, I’m an infiltrator, trying to

What is a Christian nation?

A new and major British survey in which 1,200 priests were asked a set of questions about faith and the church has concluded that the

Facing Grief

I’ve been ordained less than four years but have conducted almost fifty funerals. When I tell people that they look at me in disbelief. No

The Enduring Legacy

This year is the 60th anniversary of the death of C. S. Lewis, author of the Narnia stories, Miracles, Till We have Faces, Surprised by

You Are Never Alone

I wasn’t raised in the church, and knew little about Christ or Christianity outside of what were then school assemblies with traditional hymns, and films

Identifiable Faith in Public Life

Amira Elghawaby, the Canadian government’s new Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia, hasn’t been welcomed by everybody. That’s a great shame, because she’s a moderate, intelligent,

If You Had What I Had

There’s a marvelous story explaining the definition of chutzpah, the wonderful Yiddish word that loosely means impudence of gall. A woman gets on a crowded

We Have Some Explaining To Do

I spent three weeks in the UK at the end of last year, and during my stay something of a statistical explosion occurred—if such a

Returning Home

I haven’t been back to Britain for more than three years. The pandemic and a minor surgical procedure were the impassable and impossible barriers, and

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