We recently returned from a trip to Europe and a chance to relax from the usual day to day. I had a chance to read a couple of books I had started but never finished and was challenged to think again by a topic I thought was settled in my mind.
Michael Coren is writer, radio personality and public figure. I have read his work in Canadian newspapers and seen him on television for many years. I had regarded him as a conservative, someone whose opinions were shaped by the right wing thoughts of the comfortable and judgmental members of the western middle class.
He has changed and is now a priest of the Anglican Church and has wirtten a new book called “The Rebel Christ” which challenges the teachings of evangelical and conservative Christianity in the US and Canada.
I am not a religious person, I was baptized into the Presbyterian church as a child but have not attended a church in over sixty years. Despite my negative views of organized religion and it’s role in the world today I was drawn to read “The Rebel Christ” after stumbling across Rev. Coren’s Twitter account. The views he was expressing seemed so at odds with those I recalled and he was attacked constantly for them.
I won’t try to tell his story here, but if you are interested in a thoughtful exploration of Christian thought and the bible in a way that makes Jesus’ philosophy relevant and accessible please read “The Rebel Christ”.
Jim Goddard 
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