Lectures – Jim and Nancy Forest

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

The Duty of Hope February 16, 2021

By Jim Forest The theme of this retreat is “Hope in Turbulent Times” but, as I think about it, for a great many people the times we’re living in are worse than turbulent — for many they engender hopelessness. Right now we are surrounded by a ring of crises. For starters, we’re meeting together on-line […]

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 […]