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Here are some of my favorites, the current contents of my “Unexpected Sightings” set. To access all the sets, click here.

Apocalypse Soon? a Reflection on the Anniversaries of Hiroshima and Nagasaki August 10, 2018

by Jim Forest In 1951, the year I turned ten, one didn’t have to be a grown-up to be aware that radioactive particles were in the air. Invisible cancer-causing debris was being carried by the winds from the deserts of Nevada to the far corners of the Earth, and before long was being mixed with […]

Archbishop Anastasios of Albania: ‘Turn No One Away’ August 2, 2018

By Jim Forest Archbishop Anastasios has a white beard and moustache. His hair is silver. His glasses have tortoise-shell frames with gold stems and thick lenses, though what you notice most of all is the twinkle in his welcoming brown eyes. His words are often echoed by hand gestures. While he never seems to hurry, […]

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 […]