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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.

A Letter on Marriage and Hospitality July 19, 2017

Recently I heard that my friend Henriette is getting married. Henriette is famous for hating housework. As a wedding surprise, a mutual friend has called around asking people to send in “household tips” which she plans to put together in a book to give to Henriette at her wedding. This was my contribution. Dear Henriette, […]

At Play in the Lions’ Den: a biography and memoir of Daniel Berrigan June 14, 2017

Due out from Orbis Books late October 2017 * * * “There is no better introduction to the life of Dan Berrigan, one of the greatest Christians of our age, of any age, than this deeply researched, highly personal, beautifully written biography by his friend Jim Forest. He has captured Dan the poet, the prophet […]

True Free Choice June 5, 2017

by Nancy Forest The more I read about abortion, the more women I meet who have had an abortion or had a close brush with it, the more discussions I have with supporters and opponents, the more I am convinced that ours is not a society of death. We are a fearful society, we are […]

A Conversation in Novgorod: ‘Let us call brothers even those who hate us and forgive all by the Resurrection’ April 22, 2017

Talk given by Jim Forest at the Belgian Congress of Orthodox Youth at their meeting in Leuven, Belgium, in February 2005: “Let us call brothers even those who hate us and forgive all by the Resurrection.” These are words we hear each year in the context of the most important feast on the Church calendar: […]