JIM FOREST: A PILGRIMAGE OF FRIENDSHIP by Robert Ellsberg
In one of our last conversations, Jim Forest and I reflected together on the curious signs and synchronicities that had marked our... Read More
No Borders: Remembering Jim by Nancy Forest
Shortly after Jim passed away in January 2022, I began the task of designing his gravestone. We had not discussed this beforehand,... Read More
A memory of Jim Forest by Arno Akkermans
I was with Jim on Athos. As it would turn out, the only occasion on which we would leisurely spend time together,... Read More
Jim Forest in memoriam By Fr Andrew Louth
In the Fathers of the Church, from the time of Origen, there is a notion of the ‘spiritual senses’: just as we... Read More
The Vocation of a Peacemaker By Jim Forest
This is an extract from a talk given by Jim at St Tikhon’s Monastery in June 2003. The talk was later edited... Read More
The Tangerine of Love by Thirza Buijkx
Ever since I was a child, I always used to hear stories about some “Jim Forest,” whom my mother respected a lot.... Read More
Holy Consistency: Jim Forest ‘s Life of Protest and Proclamation By Michael Plekon
I was grateful to have known Jim Forest. Mostly I corresponded with him. I last was with him at a conference of... Read More
Real Saints
In 1994, Jim Forest participated in a peace conference in Chania, Crete in Greece. While there, Jim discovered that old memories of... Read More
Standing on Cracking Ice: A chapter from Writing Straight with Crooked Lines by Jim Forest
IN MARCH 1985 a political event occurred in the USSR that was to make the world a less dangerous place: Mikhail Gorbachev... Read More
Rachel’s Lament: In Communion on Abortion
Rachel’s Lament: In Communion on Abortion The Orthodox Peace Fellowship is pro-life but not exactly in the way the term is typically used. Pro-life... Read More