The Rev. James Forbes Jr. discusses ministry, family and overcoming adversity in poetry-filled book

“Veracity and Verse: A Preacher’s Reflections and Poems on Faith and Truth” and author the Rev. James A. Forbes Jr. (Courtesy images)
(RNS) — ‘My sense is that these poems might pick up someone’s spirit, they might deposit a resolution regarding some values,’ Forbes said in the preface of his new book.