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In one of our last conversations, Jim Forest and I reflected together on the curious signs and synchronicities that had marked our...

Shortly after Jim passed away in January 2022, I began the task of designing his gravestone. We had not discussed this beforehand,...

I was with Jim on Athos. As it would turn out, the only occasion on which we would leisurely spend time together,...

In the Fathers of the Church, from the time of Origen, there is a notion of the ‘spiritual senses’: just as we...

This is an extract from a talk given by Jim at St Tikhon’s Monastery in June 2003. The talk was later edited...

It is hard to believe that on the 13th of January one year had already passed since Jim died, just before the...

Ever since I was a child, I always used to hear stories about some “Jim Forest,” whom my mother respected a lot....

I was grateful to have known Jim Forest. Mostly I corresponded with him. I last was with him at a conference of...

Our parish in Deventer, belonging to the “Archdiocese of Parishes of Russian Tradition in Western Europe”, so the “rue Daru” to keep...

Seen from a distance, today’s world of Orthodoxy may seem like a stack of different coats: you have Russian Orthodoxy, Greek Orthodoxy,...