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		<title>Remembering Thomas Merton</title>
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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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting From There to Here</title>
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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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Between Constantinople and Istanbul</title>
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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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thomas Merton: a poster boy?</title>
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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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Love Your Enemies As Yourself</title>
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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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Discovering Wormwood</title>
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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 [...]]]></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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Will All Be Changed: Reflections on the Transfiguration</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[a sermon given by Jim Forest 8 March 2009 at the Canadian Memorial Church in Vancouver And he said to them, &#8220;Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see that the kingdom of God has come with power.&#8221; And after six days Jesus took with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Give Peace a Chance: Peacemaking as common ground</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:50:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Talk given by Jim Forest 10 March 2009 at Trinity Western University, Langley, British Columbia : “All we are saying,” sang the Beatles, “is give peace a chance.” We sing it still, not only with a fond memory of John Lennon, who wrote the song in 1969, but remembering all the people who made it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Erasmus have anything to teach us in the 21st century?</title>
		<link>http://www.jimandnancyforest.com/2009/02/27/erasmus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[A talk given 10 March 2009 at Trinity Western University, in Langley, British Columbia, at the invitation of Kimberly Franklin,dean of the College of Teaching] If someone had told me several months ago that I would soon be giving a talk on Erasmus of Rotterdam to students of the School of Education here in Langley, [...]]]></description>
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