Jim Forest

Author of Praying With Icons

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About the Author

Jim Forest, who lives in Alkmaar, the Netherlands, is the author of many books, including All Is Grace, Living with Wisdom, and At Play in the Lions' Den (his biographies of peacemakers Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton, and Daniel Berrigan). Other bestselling titles include Praying with Icons and Writing show more Straight with Crooked Lines: A Memoir. show less

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Works by Jim Forest

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Praying With Icons (1997) 285 copies

The Ladder of the Beatitudes (1999) 152 copies

Living With Wisdom: A Life of Thomas Merton (1991) — Author — 90 copies

Love Is the Measure: A Biography of Dorothy Day (1986) 87 copies

All Is Grace: A Biography of Dorothy Day (2011) 64 copies

Thomas Merton, a pictorial biography (1980) 59 copies

Saint Nicholas and the Nine Gold Coins (2015) 50 copies

Saint George and the Dragon (2011) 44 copies

Making Friends of Enemies: Reflections of the Teachings of Jesus (1987) 43 copies

Confession: Doorway to Forgiveness (2002) 42 copies

The Road to Emmaus: Pilgrimage as a Way of Life (2007) 37 copies

Silent as a Stone: Mother Maria of Paris and the Trash Can Rescue (2007) 35 copies

At Play in the Lions' Den: A Biography and Memoir of Daniel Berrigan (2017) 29 copies

The Wormwood File: E-mail From Hell (2004) 26 copies

The Root of War Is Fear: Thomas Merton's Advice to Peacemakers (2016) 20 copies

The Resurrection of the Church in Albania (2002) 20 copies

Loving Our Enemies: Reflections on the Hardest Commandment (2014) 16 copies

Pilgrim to the Russian Church: An American Journalist Encounters a Vibrant Religious Faith in the Soviet Union (1988) 13 copies

Thomas Merton's struggle with peacemaking (1978) 10 copies

Delivered into Resistance (1969) 8 copies

Free at Last: Impact of Perestroika on Religious Life in the Soviet Union (1990) 7 copies

Writing Straight with Crooked Lines: A Memoir (2020) 7 copies

Confession: The Healing Sacrament (2014) 6 copies

Religion in the new Russia : the impact of perestroika on the varieties of religious life in the Soviet Union (1990) 6 copies

Finding God Among the Russians (1989) 4 copies

Eyes of Compassion: Living with Thich Nhat Hanh (2021) 4 copies

La terreur ou la paix ? (French Edition) (2006) 4 copies

Finding Your Centre, a Journey with Thomas Merton (Everyday Spirituality) (1992) 2 copies

1001 Witticisms 1 copy

The Whale's Tale (1992) 1 copy

In communion : a journal of the Orthodox Peace Fellowship of the Protection of the Mother of God (Winter 2003) 1 copy

Pope Francis’s Challenge to All Christians: End the Death Penalty | Online Journal Article 1 copy

Thomas Merton. Scrittore e monaco, uomo di pace e dialogo (1995) 1 copy

"The Root of War is Fear" "Love Your Enemies" 1 copy

The Tale of the Turnip (1988) 1 copy

Alles is genade: een biografie van Dorothy Day 1 copy

The Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam: Fifteen Years for Reconciliation 1 copy

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Beholding the Glory: Incarnation through the Arts (2000) — Contributor — 138 copies

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