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

Re-reading ‘Love in the Ruins’ April 1, 2020

By Jim Forest I’ve just finished re-reading Walker Percy’s apocalyptic comedy, Love in the Ruins. It’s one of the books I return to every few years and find even better each time. The story, set in the near future, is more timely, and more prophetic, than it was when the book was first published half-a-century […]

Paying the Price of Peace: an interview with Nobel Laureate Betty Williams March 22, 2020

In December 1976 Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to prevent a civil war in Norther Ireland. This interview took place in Belfast in the summer of 1977. In war, the ancient Greek proverb offers, the first casualty is truth. Perhaps hope is second. During recent conversations […]

Writing Straight With Crooked Lines: A Memoir March 2, 2020

Jim Forest has spent a lifetime in the cause of peace and reconciliation. In this memoir he traces his story through his intimate encounters with some of the great peacemakers of our time, including Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton, Daniel Berrigan, Henri Nouwen, and Thich Nhat Hanh. The son of ardent Communists, his remarkable journey led […]

Things I Learned from Fr Sergei Oviannikov January 13, 2020

By Jim Forest One of the many things Fr Sergei and I had in common is that we had both been in prison, in my case in America back in the late sixties for an act of protest against the Vietnam War, in his case in 1973 for acts of disobedience while he was in […]