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	<description>Under the Forest Flier</description>
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		<title>A Visit to Beit Jala</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:38:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jim Forest Beit Jala, with its population of 12,350, stands on the eastern slopes of Ras Jala, which rises 920 meters above sea level, one of the highest mountains in the Judean Hills. The town is famous for its olives and olive oil, apricots and skilled stone-cutters. Viewed from a distance, Beit Jala &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Becoming Orthodox</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jim Forest I am sometimes asked how the son of atheist parents ended up not only a Christian but a member of the Orthodox Church. In fact it wasn’t so big a leap as it sounds. For starters my parents weren’t people for whom atheism was a religion unto itself. Their atheism seemed to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nicholas and the Nine Gold Coins</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Copyright 2012. This is a work in progress. It may not be shared, linked or posted to other sites without my permission.] by Jim Forest Once upon a time there was a boy named Nicholas. Today we call him Saint Nicholas, but when he was growing up everyone called him Nick. Nick lived in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A few memories of Thich Nhat Hanh</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:56:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I traveled and also at times lived with Thich Nhat Hanh in the last sixties through the seventies. Here are extracts from various letters in which Nancy and I relate a few stories about him. In these passages Nhat Hanh is sometimes called “Thay”, the Vietnamese word for teacher. &#8211; Jim Forest * * * [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saint Dorothy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Long before her death, many people spoke of Dorothy Day as a saint. It made Dorothy uncomfortable and sometimes irritable. If people knew her better, she insisted, they would see her in a far more critical light. She staunchly resisted being regarded as a model Christian. She famously said, “Don’t call me a saint — [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Siberian God-mother: an interview with Natasha Gorelova</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the thick birch woods south of Novosibirsk, Siberia&#8217;s largest city, is Akademgorodok &#8212; literally &#8220;Academic Town.&#8221; Founded in the fifties by Soviet Academy of Science as a major research center, it accommodates the Institutes of Nuclear Physics, Biology, Economics, Pure and Applied Mathematics, and Organic Chemistry, and numerous similar establishments as well as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mother Maria Skobtsova: Essential Writings</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[edited by Helene Klepinin translation: Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky preface: Oliver Clement introduction by Jim Forest Orbis Books, 192 pages, $15 Mother Maria Skobtsova &#8212; now recognized as Saint Maria of Paris &#8212; died at Ravensbrück concentration camp in 1945, paying with her life for her vocation of hospitality. In many ways, it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Pilgrimage to Hell</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jim Forest “Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and act without asking questions&#8230;” — Primo Levi, survivor of Auschwitz, If This is a Man No one is certain how many died at Auschwitz. Most prisoners were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Challenge of a 20th Century Saint, Maria Skobtsova</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:14:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jim Forest Mother Maria Skobtsova &#8212; now recognized as Saint Maria of Paris &#8212; died in a German concentration camp on the 30th of March 1945. Although perishing in a gas chamber, Mother Maria did not perish in the Church’s memory. Those who had known her would again and again draw attention to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After the War Was Over: Seeing What You’d Rather Not See</title>
		<link>http://www.jimandnancyforest.com/2011/10/10/after-the-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jim Forest It was in 1975 that the Vietnam War came to an end with the sudden collapse of the South Vietnamese regime. The iconic image of that event was a helicopter taking off from the roof of the US Embassy in Saigon carrying diplomatic and military personnel to safety aboard an offshore aircraft [...]]]></description>
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