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

The Return of the Felon July 1, 2019

I’m writing an autobiography, the working title of which is Writing Straight with Crooked Lines. There is a certain amount of archeology in writing a memoir. Shovel in hand, I’ve been exploring old files that I haven’t looked at in decades. One of the discoveries today was an article I wrote for Commonweal just after […]

Reflections on Daniel Berrigan June 9, 2019

Lecture at Villanova University, 9 June 2019 By Jim Forest I first met Dan Berrigan in 1961, thanks to Dorothy Day. Dorothy brought me with her to a small gathering in Harlem at which Dan presented a paper on Catholic social teaching and the impact of Pope John XXIII. Dan was introduced to us as a […]

Religion in the New Russia April 10, 2019

Jim Forest This book, now out-of-print, was published by Crossroads in 1990. “Blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so men persecuted the prophets who were before you.” […]

Pilgrim to the Russian Church April 10, 2019

by Jim Forest The book was published by Crossroads in 1988 and is now out-of-print. to my Mother, Marguerite Hendrickson Forest “Lord, how good everything is… You only have to look around you!”— Maxim Gorky’s Grandmother, My Childhood Preface A decade before his death, Thomas Merton noted in his journal the realization that reconciliation is […]