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Jim and Nancy Forest

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Jim Forest makes occasional lecture trips. Are you interested in him speaking at your parish, school or university?

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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
web: http://www.forestflier.com/
tel intl (+31-72) 515-418o
tel within NL: (072) 515-4180

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Writing Straight With Crooked Lines: A Memoir

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  • St Seraphim of Sarov January 21, 2021
    To the degree that love for the Lord warms the human heart, one finds in the Name of Jesus a sweetness that is the source of abiding peace.— Saint Seraphim of Sarov It was Father Germann, a monk I met in the Russian city of Vladimir in 1987, who introduced me to Saint Seraphim of […]
  • The Road November 24, 2020
    by Jim Forest Consider well the highway, the road by which you went. — Jeremiah 31:21 The road was the most imperative and first of our necessities. It is older than buildings and than wells. — Hillaire Belloc, The Old Road Now my body seemed to walk itself, the road walking my body. — an […]
  • Join the Navy and See the World November 13, 2020
    [extracts from Writing Straight With Crooked Lines: A Memoir] By Jim Forest Like many teenagers before me, I found myself gazing at military recruiting posters. “Join the Navy and see the world” was a slogan that had immense appeal. See the world? Yes! The local recruiting office was located in the basement of the Post […]
  • Refusing to Take Shelter November 11, 2020
    By Jim Forest [an extract from All Is Grace,  a biography of Dorothy Day (Orbis Books) / the photo was taken in City Hall Park in 1955] In the spring of 1955, the press reported that a civil defense drill, “Operation Alert,” was scheduled for June 15. The news came with a warning: anyone refusing […]
  • About
  • Jim’s Books
  • Jim’s Essays
  • Lectures
  • Nancy’s Essays
  • Forest-Flier Editorial Services
  • Photos: Unexpected Sightings
  • Contact
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