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Metropolitan Filaret of Minsk

by Jim Forest

Metropolitan Filaret of Minsk’s death on January 12, 2021, released a flood of memories.
I first met Filaret in April 1984. I was one of several people from the West invited to participate in a discussion of “Violence, Nonviolence, and Liberation” he hosted at the Moscow Patriarchate’s Office of External Affairs.

Jim Forest

Jim Forest was the international secretary of the Orthodox Peace Fellowship. His books included ~Praying with Icons~, ~Ladder of the Beatitudes~, ~Confession: Doorway to Forgiveness~, and ~The Road to Emmaus: Pilgrimage as a Way of Life~. His autobiography, ~Writing Straight With Crooked Lines~, was published by Orbis Books in 2020.

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