Contact

Nancy and Jim Forest
Kanisstraat 5
1811 GJ Alkmaar
The Netherlands

Jim’s e-mail: jhforest (at) gmail.com / Nancy’s e-mail: forestflier (at) gmail.com
web: http://www.forestflier.com/
tel intl (+31-72) 515-418o
tel within NL: (072) 515-4180

Nhat Hanh on Meditation: Like Rain Falling on Fire November 13, 2018

By Jim Forest [Fellowship magazine / September 1975 / page 3-4] In 1968, I was traveling with Thich Nhat Hanh on a Fellowship tour during which there were meetings with church and student groups, senators, journalists, professors, business people, and — blessed relief — a few poets. Almost everywhere he went, this brown-robed Buddhist monk […]

The Green Patriarch’s Campaign for a Greener World November 6, 2018

By Jim and Nancy Forest Soon after his election to the throne of Ecumenical Patriarch in 1991, Bartholomew of Constantinople made clear that he saw his task not only as safeguarding the unity of the Orthodox Church but also doing all that he could to protect the world and its people in a period of […]

The Milwaukee Fourteen: A Burning Protest against the Vietnam War October 17, 2018

Wisconsin Magazine of History / Winter 2017 By Tim Thering On September 24, 1968, fourteen religiously motivated, anti-Vietnam war activists removed, or in their words, “liberated,” ten thousand draft records from the Milwaukee Selective Service office. The protesters, including five Catholic priests, hauled the draft files to a square in the middle of a busy Milwaukee […]

The Milwaukee 14: Action, Trial, Prison October 16, 2018

The following pages are a draft of three chapters in an autobiography I’ve been writing. It’s a work-in-progress. >> The Milwaukee Fourteen Dan Berrigan had just been released from prison on bail and Jim Douglass, a co-founder of the Catholic Peace Fellowship, was in town. We decided to visit Dan at a Jesuit parish in […]