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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
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tel intl (+31-72) 515-418o
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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 […]

Thomas Merton’s Last Three Days December 10, 2019

This is an extract from the revised edition of Living With Wisdom, a biography of Thomas Merton written by Jim Forest and published by Orbis Books. Footnotes have been removed. On December 8, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. Merton made his last journal entry. He was off to say Mass at the Church of […]

Lord, that I might see: talk at the bishops’ peace dinner November 30, 2019

Bishops’ Peace Dinner text / 26 November 2019 / an annual event held in Baltimore and sponsored by the Catholic Peace Fellowship By Jim Forest Images referred to are in this album:https://www.flickr.com/photos/jimforest/albums/72157711100733001 [air view of the Abbey of Gethsemani]One of the significant events of my life was being a participant in a retreat on the […]

Thomas Merton on Compassion and peacemaking November 18, 2019

A basic question for those involved in planning protest actions is how to reach and change the minds of those who feel accused, judged and condemned by the protest and react defensively and even angrily if not violently. It was a topic that Thomas Merton wrote to me about of several occasions in the sixties. […]