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		<title>My journey to the Orthodox Church: an interview with Jim Forest</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interview with Jim Forest made in mid-October 2007 by Elena Nazarova for Nikolaas in de Jordaan, the quarterly journal of St. Nicholas of Myra Russian Orthodox Church, located in the Jordaan district of Amsterdam. For more about the parish, see its web site: www.orthodox.nl. EN: Dear Jim, we know you for a long time [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://www.jimandnancyforest.com/2011/03/01/my-journey/' addthis:title='My journey to the Orthodox Church: an interview with Jim Forest ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>A round-about journey to the Orthodox Church: an interview with Fr. Alexis Voogd</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 15:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interview made by Jim Forest at the Voogd apartment in Amsterdam on the fifth of April, 1990. &#160; [starting the tape recorder] This looks serious! But will my English make sense? I admire your gift for languages. Oh, Jim! There are blank spots in my English and they are getting more and more. Can you [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://www.jimandnancyforest.com/2011/03/01/a-round-about-journey-to-the-orthodox-church-an-interview-with-fr-alexis-voogd/' addthis:title='A round-about journey to the Orthodox Church: an interview with Fr. Alexis Voogd ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Meeting Thomas Merton</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 14:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(a talk given in Prades, France, May 2006, in the course of a pilgrimage organized by the Thomas Merton Society of Canada) by Jim Forest Each of us has a memory of Merton’s entrance into our lives. Usually it has to do with coming upon one of his books. It is the same for me. [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://www.jimandnancyforest.com/2011/02/02/meeting-thomas-merton-2/' addthis:title='Meeting Thomas Merton ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Thomas Merton</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 18:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A round table discussion between a few of Merton&#8217;s friends &#8211; Tommie O&#8217;Callaghan, Donald Allchin, Jim Forest and John Wu, Jr. (a conversation chaired by David Scott, chairman of the Thomas Merton Society of Great Britain and Irealnd) David Scott: The title of this conference is Your Heart is My Hermitage. We didn&#8217;t pick it [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://www.jimandnancyforest.com/2010/05/02/remembering-thomas-merton/' addthis:title='Remembering Thomas Merton ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Getting From There to Here</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:36:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jim Forest My parents were people radically out of step with the America of the cold-war fifties. In those days they both belonged to the Communist Party. I was a &#8220;red-diaper baby.&#8221; Yet religious inspiration played a major part in the lives of my parents as long as I can remember. An orphan raised [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://www.jimandnancyforest.com/2010/02/07/getting-from-there-to-here/' addthis:title='Getting From There to Here ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Between Constantinople and Istanbul</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the journal Nancy and I kept during a ten-day stay in Istanbul in 2003. Some of the photos taken in that period are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimforest/sets/166648/ 24 April 2003, Holy Thursday Are we in Istanbul? Or Constantinople? Winston Churchill had no doubt it was the latter. As he wrote in a memo to the [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://www.jimandnancyforest.com/2010/01/25/istanbul/' addthis:title='Between Constantinople and Istanbul ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Thomas Merton: a poster boy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:47:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Often works of biography reveal more about the author than about his subject. Mark Shaw&#8217;s recent book about Thomas Merton strikes me as a case in point. Here is the review I wrote for the Winter issue of The Merton Seasonal. Jim * * * Beneath the Mask of Holiness: Thomas Merton and the Forbidden [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://www.jimandnancyforest.com/2010/01/20/hello-world/' addthis:title='Thomas Merton: a poster boy? ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Love Your Enemies As Yourself</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 13:04:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jim Forest But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you… – Jesus Christ (Matthew 5:44) Passenger planes taken by terrorists fly into the two towers of the World Trade Center; the buildings collapse and thousands are killed. Many more are wounded. Still more now suffer from having [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://www.jimandnancyforest.com/2009/07/11/loveofenemies/' addthis:title='Love Your Enemies As Yourself ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Discovering Wormwood</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 19:40:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a copy of a preface I’ve written for the forthcoming Romanian edition of The Wormwood File: E-Mail from Hell. A page about the English-language edition of the book is here: http://www.jimandnancyforest.com/2005/01/03/the-wormwood-file-e-mail-from-hell/ A few years ago I was thinking of sending a copy of C.S. Lewis’s book, The Screwtape Letters, to a cousin who [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://www.jimandnancyforest.com/2009/05/21/wormwood/' addthis:title='Discovering Wormwood ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Crazy for God: Frank Schaeffer&#8217;s Honest and Surprising Memoir</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 08:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[a review by Jim Forest of Frank Scheaffer’s memoir Frank Schaeffer doesn&#8217;t really fit into a brief description. An American, he grew up in rural Switzerland. His parents were fervent Calvinist missionaries living in a Catholic culture which they regarded as barely Christian. Their chalet, known as L&#8217;Abri, became a house of hospitality in which [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://www.jimandnancyforest.com/2009/05/07/frankschaeffer/' addthis:title='Crazy for God: Frank Schaeffer&#8217;s Honest and Surprising Memoir ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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