LOI wishes to pay tribute to Protopresbyter Leonid Kishkovsky, who fell asleep in Christ on 3 August 2021. For more information, see the announcement by St Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary at https://www.svots.edu/
LOI wishes to pay tribute to Protopresbyter Leonid Kishkovsky, who fell asleep in Christ on 3 August 2021. For more information, see the announcement by St Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary at https://www.svots.edu/
I’ve not posted much lately, as we’ve been getting a newsletter up and running. (If you don’t receive it and would like to, get in touch.) But from 5-7 June 60 Orthodox and Evangelical leaders in mission, church, and school are gathering at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology near Boston, MA, for a…
I have been so busy with getting ready for this that I have not posted for several weeks, but on behalf of the committee and participants I would like to request your prayers for this gathering. We meet from 11-14 October – next week! At least half the sixty people present will be from Ethiopia,…
Organisers of last week’s LOI Consultation The gospel as Good News were taken by surprise when almost one third of the participants turned up for an ‘optional’ session on Theological Education. Planned as a gathering for a handful of interested individuals this meeting became a major aspect of the consultation signalling the importance of early…
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…
Lapidomedia have today published an article on the future of the church in Syria by David Knowles based on an interview with a young Syrian Christian refugee now living in Canada. Although not all commentators on this region would agree with his analysis, Knowles article is worth reading as we pray for the future of the…
Running parallel to the Lausanne-Orthodox Initiative (LOI) is the Lausanne-Catholic Initiative which is exploring the future of relationships between Evangelical and Catholic Christians. They have recently released three videos of the proceedings at their last consultation in Chicago. You can find these videos (called “Lausanne Conversations 1/2/3” at http://www.act3network.com/videos – but you need to scroll down the…