Orthodox Spirituality conference announced

The 23rd. International Ecumenical Conference on Orthodox Spirituality, it has been announced, will be held at Bose, Switzerland from 9-12 September 2015 in collaboration with the Orthodox Churches. They will meet under the title “Mercy and forgiveness”, as chosen by the scientific committee of the ecumenical conferences, which met in Bose on 4-5 October 2014. […]

Ethno-Doxology

I just came across the September-October 2014 edition of Mission Frontiers the journal of the US Centre for World Mission (who were represented at our 2013 LOI consultation). This very interesting edition focuses on “Ethno-Doxology : Worship and Mission for the Global Church”. In a number of well researched and well written articles the contributors […]

The debate continues – Ethical Evangelism

Stimulated by the two responses given to his paper when the LOI Initiative met in Albania last month, Dr. Elmer Theissen has now written a further contribution to the debate. On the final day at St. Vlash Dr. Theissen presented a challenging paper on the ethics of evangelism. This paper received appreciative but robust responses […]

Consultation news spreads

In the past few weeks, since 60 Evangelical and Orthodox leaders met in Albania for the second Lausanne-Orthodox Consultation on the theme “The Mission of God”, news of the event has slowly spread around the world. We are aware of reports appearing in India, the USA, Serbia, Finland, Romania and several other places.  The Serbian Orthodox Church […]