Ecumenical Dialogue in Ethiopia

We are very pleased to be able to announce the publication (August 2015) of our first book The Mission of God :      Studies in Orthodox and Evangelical Mission This important volume is the fruit of three years’ work by Orthodox and Evangelical scholars and two major international consultations. The collection of essays points a way…

A review of The Mission of the Church: Five views in conversation edited by Craig Ott                  (Published by Baker Academic 2016) In the style and tradition of “Three views of Eastern Orthodoxy and Evangelicalism” edited by Brad Nasif et al., Craig Ott has now brought together five significant missiologists from major Christian traditions to reflect…

Brad Nassif, a long-standing participant in the work of LOI, has just released another book, which is sure to be of interest to all who seek closer relations between the Evangelical and Orthodox traditions. It will be launched by St. Vladimir’s Seminary this Saturday (Oct 2) at an event in Cleveland, Ohio.  Here is the…

The Bible Society of Russia has announced the completion of a ten year  project to translate the Bashkir Bible – project jointly undertaken by Orthodox and Evangelical Christians. The Bashkirs are descendants of the tribes that used to lead nomadic life in the southern Urals and were established as a nation in the 9th century….

Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev, head of the Department of External Church Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church, recently delivered a lecture on “Christian Ecumenism: Does it have a future?” in Winchester and Cambridge, UK.  In the introductory passages of his lecture Metropolitan Hilarion deals with the early mission of the church and specifically the role of…