25 Facts About Michael Coren

Michael Coren was born on 15 January 1959 and is a British-Canadian writer and clergyman.

Michael Coren has been a long-time radio personality, particularly on Toronto talk radio station CFRB.

Michael Coren was born in Walthamstow, Essex, England, of Jewish heritage, and raised secular.

Michael Coren took exception to being labelled a "literary prostitute" during a 1994 interview.

In 1999, Michael Coren briefly moved to Talk 640 for a short stint as its morning man.

Michael Coren was dismissed by CFRB as a result of complaints arising from comments ridiculing the weight of an apparent guest.

Michael Coren was again let go by CFRB along with 12 other staff of the Toronto radio station on 27 August 2009.

On television, Coren hosted the Michael Coren Show on the Crossroads Television System until June 2011 when he left to join the Sun News Network where he hosted The Arena with Michael Coren weeknights beginning 30 August 2011.

Michael Coren had a newspaper column published every Saturday in the Sun newspaper chain until February 2015.

Michael Coren has been a columnist for the Western Standard, Catholic Insight and The Women's Post and has contributed to National Post, Reader's Digest and several other publications.

Michael Coren stated that it negatively affected his career and that he became the target of personal attacks from former readers, observing that "there is none so angry as a fundamentalist scorned".

Michael Coren stated that contrition is a major aspect of his conversion and he regrets "so much of what [he] said, especially the tone" in his earlier career.

Michael Coren was ordained a transitional deacon in the Anglican Diocese of Niagara on 20 October 2019.

In September 2006, Michael Coren published an article in the Toronto Sun supporting the use of tactical nuclear strikes against Iran.

Michael Coren's father was Jewish as was his maternal grandfather, while his maternal grandmother came from a family of Welsh coal miners and converted to Judaism.

Michael Coren has said that his father's family left Poland in the 1890s, a few decades before The Holocaust.

Michael Coren was profiled on Credo on Vision TV, and said that his father told him he could not attend his son's wedding in a Catholic church without becoming "physically sick".

Michael Coren left Catholicism for Evangelicalism in the 1990s, after a conversion experience, greatly influenced by Canadian televangelist Terry Winter.

In 1991, Michael Coren said in a column for a humour magazine: "Evangelicals may be intolerant, small-minded, and repellent, but at least they hold a consistent set of beliefs".

In one of his columns for the satirical humour magazine Frank, Michael Coren depicted Mother Teresa getting drunk in a bar.

In 2014, Michael Coren left the Catholic Church and began worshipping with the Anglican Church of Canada, being formally received into the communion the next year.

In contrast to his previous views, Michael Coren now identifies as a Christian socialist.

Michael Coren is a priest of the Anglican Diocese of Niagara.

Michael Coren was ordained deacon in October 2019, and ordained priest in September 2021.

Michael Coren serves as assistant curate of the parish of St Christopher, Burlington.