Here's your Lenten reading. Because if the Sermon on the Mount, or any of its parts, doesn't compel repentance, well...but if it doesn't get to you for Lent, here's your reading for Easter and Bright Week, because there's no more joyful news than that if we're told to be merciful, it must mean that the Teller is infinitely more merciful, and we have hope. And it could be your reading for Pentecost, because these meditations on the very center of our Lord's teaching could not help but bring newness of life. Or maybe, for ''ordinary time,'' since our author uses anecdotes from everyday life to e... View More...
''Far from being hidden, each sin is another crack in the world.'' To illustrate: ''I saw that although I thought my sin could be secret, that they are no more secret than an earthquake...It will pollute the drinking water. It will make noxious gases come out of the ventilators in the elementary school. When we scream in senseless anger, blocks away a little girl we do not know spills a bowl of gravy all over a white table cloth.'' Forest's point: sin is far more than a personal issue, and without confession, the Gospel makes little sense. Drawing from Scripture, the Church Fathers, literature... View More...
''Far from being hidden, each sin is another crack in the world.'' To illustrate: ''I saw that although I thought my sin could be secret, that they are no more secret than an earthquake...It will pollute the drinking water. It will make noxious gases come out of the ventilators in the elementary school. When we scream in senseless anger, blocks away a little girl we do not know spills a bowl of gravy all over a white table cloth.'' Forest's point: sin is far more than a personal issue, and without confession, the Gospel makes little sense. Drawing from Scripture, the Church Fathers, literature... View More...
''Far from being hidden, each sin is another crack in the world.'' To illustrate: ''I saw that although I thought my sin could be secret, that they are no more secret than an earthquake...It will pollute the drinking water. It will make noxious gases come out of the ventilators in the elementary school. When we scream in senseless anger, blocks away a little girl we do not know spills a bowl of gravy all over a white table cloth.'' Forest's point: sin is far more than a personal issue, and without confession, the Gospel makes little sense. Drawing from Scripture, the Church Fathers, literature... View More...
An absorbing pictorial biography of Thomas Merton. Jim Forest's story - enhanced by the most extensive collection of photographs ever published - captures the life, writings, and vision of one of the great spiritual figures of this century. Robert Lax, a poet and close friend of Thomas Merton, praises Forest's endeavor: A book written with love by one who understands Merton and has followed in his steps...The best introduction I can think of to Merton, his life, and work. 100 pp. View More...
Love is the Measure offers a richly illustrated biography of Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker movement and one of the most extraordinary and prophetic voices in the American Catholic church. Jim Forest, who worked with Day in the 1960s, provides a compelling portrait of her heroic efforts to live out the radical message of the gospel for our times. (from the book) View More...
Forest, a friend and biographer of Thomas Merton, peace activist, and convert to Orthodoxy, has given us a warm, personal, anecdotal introduction to icons which at the same time manages to convey a great deal about the spirituality and liturgical piety of the Orthodox Church. We would recommend this book as the best one for someone coming to icons for the first time. Forest reveals his own heart as he stands before the icon with us, and in this alone we learn a great lesson about icons. Another lesson is that we ought to pray, and so this book ends with a collection of the most often-used Orth... View More...
True to the hospitality it celebrates, Jim Forest's new book quietly and gently welcomes you into its precincts. Short, richly anecdotal chapters proceed from descriptions of the literal elements of pilgrimage (the road, walking, praying, relics, silence, hospitality) to a spiritual expansion of their meaning until, ultimately, pilgrimage embraces all of life. We have only to open our eyes, to become aware of what we are doing, and a flower growing between the cracks of a sidewalk in a seedy part of the city can become an epiphany of beauty that transforms our trip to the grocery store into pi... View More...
True to the hospitality it celebrates, Jim Forest's new book quietly and gently welcomes you into its precincts. Short, richly anecdotal chapters proceed from descriptions of the literal elements of pilgrimage (the road, walking, praying, relics, silence, hospitality) to a spiritual expansion of their meaning until, ultimately, pilgrimage embraces all of life. We have only to open our eyes, to become aware of what we are doing, and a flower growing between the cracks of a sidewalk in a seedy part of the city can become an epiphany of beauty that transforms our trip to the grocery store into pi... View More...
True to the hospitality it celebrates, Jim Forest's new book quietly and gently welcomes you into its precincts. Short, richly anecdotal chapters proceed from descriptions of the literal elements of pilgrimage (the road, walking, praying, relics, silence, hospitality) to a spiritual expansion of their meaning until, ultimately, pilgrimage embraces all of life. We have only to open our eyes, to become aware of what we are doing, and a flower growing between the cracks of a sidewalk in a seedy part of the city can become an epiphany of beauty that transforms our trip to the grocery store into pi... View More...
