Prayer is key to the work of the Lausanne-Orthodox Initiative. We would like to remind all those committed to this initiative that we value your prayers and provide regular prayer requests on our website.
Please do visit our prayer page regularly, use the short prayer requests there and also encourage your church and others to pray for us.
The Unchanging Gospel in an Ever-Changing Culture Metropolitan Kallistos Ware The first of the “Engaging Orthodoxy” series of lectures at North Park University, Chicago, USA, will be delivered by the renowned Greek Orthodox scholar Metropolitan Kallistos Ware. Those unable to attend the lecture will be able to participate through the live-streaming of this important event….
During our LOI consultations in Albania we have been very much aware that in order to relate positively to another Christian tradition you need to understand their, and your own, history. We are all products of history. In this connection one of our Steering Committee members, Dr. Tim Grass, writes: Dear friends, I would like to…
The second Lausanne-Orthodox Consultation opened tonight with a dinner hosted by His Beatitude Archbishop Anastasios of Albania and Pastor Ali Kurti, President of the Albanian Evangelical Brotherhood (VUSH) and attended by over 50 delegates from 20 countries. His Beatitude spoke of the resurrection of the church in Albania and the challenges of witness in contemporary…
We have just heard from Prof Daniel Munteanu inviting papers for the Journal of Orthodox Theology (see www.orthodox-theology.com). This is an on-line open access journal. Looking at their back issues I see it is a long time since they published anything on missiology. So here is the challenge … Would any of you who were…
Alison Kolosva, a friend of LOI, has created this podcast with the Lausanne movement. Her work on mission in the Chuvash republic in Russia is fascinating, and I strongly recommend listening to the podcast at this link: https://lausanne.org/podcast/12-orthodox-missions-bound-for-the-east-the-chuvash-republic
At the second Lausanne-Orthodox Initiative (LOI) consultation which will be held in Tirana, Albania in September 2014, the first main topic which will be addressed by participants will be our different understandings of the process of conversion or spiritual transformation. Exactly ten years ago three leading Evangelical scholars wrote on the topic of conversion in the…