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SALT is a journal on mission that comes from the International Orthodox Theological Association. It is mission focussed, ecumenical in outlook, and supports dialogue with different Christian expressions, and so aligns very well with much of what LOI does. At the link you can find out more about the vision of the journal, and there…
Top Mission Journal profiles LOI
The April 2014 edition of the International Bulletin of Missionary Research (IBMR) published today, carries an important article entitled “Historic Meeting in Albania between Orthodox and Evangelicals to Discuss Mission”. The article by Dr Jim Stamoolis and Dr. Brad Nassif, two of the participants at the LOI consultation at St. Vlash Monastery last September, explains how…
500 Years of the Protestant Reformation
I couldn’t let this anniversary pass without some reference here. It was on 31 October 1517 that Martin Luther is said to have published his protest against the abuses evident in the church of his day, the ‘Ninety-Five Theses’. Churches and ecumenical bodies around the world have been marking the anniversary this year, and some…
Lausanne Movement features in new book
Last November we featured a book on Orthodox mission published by Regnum Press. This summer Regnum have produced a companion volume on the Lausanne Movement. Both books make excellent background reading for all of us engaged in the Lausanne Orthodox Initiative. Introducing the new volume, Regnum Press say, “The Lausanne Movement has since 1974 functioned as a…
Orthodox Patriarchs agree on Holy and Great Council
The following communique has been issued by the by the Synaxis of Primates of the Orthodox Churches meeting in Geneva from 21-28 January 2016 COMMUNIQUÉ At the invitation of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the Synaxis of Primates of the Orthodox Autocephalous Churches took place at the Orthodox Center of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Chambésy, Geneva, from…
Anglicans, Oriental Orthodox, the Holy Spirit and the Mission of the Church
An International Commission of Anglicans and Oriental Orthodox has just issued an agreed statement on the work of the Holy Spirit and its relation to the Church’s mission. For more on this story, see: https://dublin.anglican.org/news/2017/10/27/anglican-and-orientalorthodox-churches-sign. The story is given poignancy by the present situation and sufferings of many Oriental Orthodox Christians, for which concern was…