![]() ![]() Robert Ellsberg on Jim Forest: "Jim’s own life incorporated the lessons of his great mentors, and through his writing he offered an essential guidebook for future generations." Near the end of his life, Forest brought his biographer’s pen to the subject of his own intriguing and eventful life, and in 2020 published a memoir, Writing Straight with Crooked Lines. ![]() ![]() 13.Īmong his many published works were biographies of Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton and Daniel Berrigan, all three of whom he knew well other books included a memoir of his time traveling with Thich Nhat Hanh, a guide to praying with icons, reflections on peacemaking and much more. A cofounder of the Catholic Peace Fellowship, Forest also worked with the International Fellowship of Reconciliation, eventually becoming the Secretary General of the group, a job that took him to the Netherlands, where he died in the town of Alkmaar on Jan. Both men played significant roles in the movement during and after the Vietnam War, Nhat Hanh as a Buddhist monk and Forest through numerous antiwar initiatives. The death of Thich Nhat Hanh on Friday came less than two weeks after the death of his friend and fellow stalwart in the international peace movement, Jim Forest. ![]()
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