Let’s just get this over with shall we? Michael Coren’s new book is out. It’s titled Reclaiming Faith: Inclusion, Grace, and Tolerance. It’s not really a book in the same fashion as his last book, Epiphany. It’s a collection of his articles from 2015 to 2019. Basically from shortly after his apostasy to the present.
I went to the store looking for it and I couldn’t find it. The date had been pushed back from October 26 to November 9. I wasn’t sure why but when I was at the store, I asked the young gentleman helping me out if he had ever heard of the publisher Cormorant Books Inc. He said that he hadn’t. It’s obviously an insignificant publishing outlet so I had to order the book online.
Before his articles begin, he has a brief introduction. In this introduction he says:
I like to think that I am an informed writer, and on my better days I may even be intelligent, but whatever my failings and weaknesses, I am always honest.
Always honest? I wonder if this supposed honesty includes the fact that he pretended to be a Catholic for almost a year and a half after he had stopped attending Catholic churches, believing Catholic theology and replacing it with Anglicanism. Coren ceased attending the Catholic Church and started attending Anglican services in either late 2013 or early 2014. This information didn’t become public until May 2015 and even then it was because someone else doxxed him. I wonder how long Mr. Always Honest would have concealed his new religion if someone hadn’t snitched on him.
During this year and a half he was writing for Catholic publications and speaking at Catholic events while receiving money in return. When he was exposed he was fired from three regular columns in Catholic publications and had a dozen speeches cancelled. Obviously Catholics paying money for a Catholic writer or speaker wouldn’t be too happy if they found out their employed minion had jumped ship to King Henry’s church. Always honest indeed.
When you read the articles in the book you begin to notice a contrast with the title of the book. The word tolerance in the subtitle shouldn’t be there because Coren has little tolerance for people who oppose his unbiblical and anti-Christian views.
On page 68 we see a glaring admission from Coren. He writes:
I have probably learned more about my faith from gay Christians than from any other people.
I must admit that we diverge in this part of our respective faith journeys. I have never made “gay Christians” the main source of learning about my faith and never will. The fact that Coren has done so explains a lot of his nonsense.
The very last article contained in the book was the only one really enjoyable to read. In July 2019 Coren wrote about how the Canadian Anglican Bishops failed to reach the two thirds vote needed(they came extremely close with 62.2%) to allow homosexual “marriage” in their religion. So technically, Coren joined a religious organization that opposes his collapse on the issue. However he essentially said that individual clergy and bishops are going to do what they want anyway so it doesn’t matter.
Should you buy or read this book? Nah, leave it on the shelf. Not that you’ll be able to find it on the shelf with its B-grade publisher. That’s a good thing since it has about the spiritual value of Fifty Shades of Grey.
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