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Nancy and Jim Forest
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1811 GJ Alkmaar
The Netherlands

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Thomas Merton: One Foot in the Wilderness, One Foot in the World July 18, 2018

Vancouver School of Theology / public lecture / 12 July 2018 By Jim Forest Were our long-dead ancestors, say just about anyone from before the nineteenth century, transported by time machine into our twenty-first century world, my guess is that the biggest single shock that our world would pose for them would not be our […]

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 […]