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

Brave Pianist: Maria Yudina June 1, 2018

by Jim Forest Armando Iannucci’s recent film, The Death of Stalin, briefly filled the two Moscow cinemas where it was being shown, but then was abruptly banned. The movie was described as an “unfriendly act by the British intellectual class” by Nikolai Starikov, head of the Russian Great Fatherland Party, and as part of a […]

Bridge Dweller May 15, 2018

As someone who made his way to the Orthodox Church from a Roman Catholic background, I am often asked why I became Orthodox and how I would compare the two churches. In the 29 years since my Orthodox chrismation, my answers to both questions have evolved, but one of the constants has been to stress […]

Ten Things I Learned from Daniel Berrigan April 16, 2018

By Jim Forest I first met Dan Berrigan thanks to Dorothy Day. In the latter part of 1961 she had brought me with her to a small gathering in an apartment on the west edge of Harlem in uptown Manhattan. At the time I was managing editor of The Catholic Worker. Dan had come down […]

Conversion, Not Domination: Inga Leonova talks with Jim Forest April 12, 2018

From The Wheel, issue 12, Winter 2018 / special issue on War & Christ Inga Leonova talks with Jim Forest Thank you, Jim, for speaking to The Wheel about your lifelong advocacy of peacemaking as essential to Christian witness. To begin, perhaps you could talk about the historical understanding of war in the Christian tradition, […]