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

What I learned about justice from Dorothy Day October 2, 2017

by Jim Forest First of all, Dorothy Day taught me that justice begins on our knees. I have never known anyone, not even in monasteries, who was more of a praying person than Dorothy Day. When I think of her, I think of her first of all on her knees praying before the Blessed Sacrament. […]

Saying No to Caesar: St. Marcellus lecture, Notre Dame September 24, 2017

Saint Marcellus lecture, delivered by Jim Forest at the University of Notre Dame 29 October 2017 Tomorrow is the feast of a saint who was once famous but isn’t widely known today, Saint Marcellus of Tangiers, a Christian martyr who was beheaded in the year 298 during the reign of the emperor Diocletian. In some […]

Climbing the Ladder of the Beatitudes August 16, 2017

by Jim Forest I want to begin with a story, but first I have to preface it with a little information about how the liturgy is carried out in the Orthodox Church. During the service, there are two processions. During the first half, the liturgy of the word, a book containing only the four Gospels […]

“I lost my fear”: a conversation with Fr Sergei Ovsiannikov July 30, 2017

Interview by Jim and Nancy Forest / 25 July 2017 Jim Forest: I recall that being in jail provided a turning point in your life… Fr Sergei: I was in two jails while I was in the army. The first time I was accused of doing propaganda for the American style of life. In fact […]