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 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,…
Hello! Since LOI came into being, Mark Oxbrow has done a fantastic job in getting it established. It’s a challenging prospect, then, to be taking over from him as he prepares for upcoming retirement. But I’m committed to seeing this dialogue prosper under God’s direction. I have been active in Orthodox-Evangelical dialogue for almost 20…
On the 9th of February 2022 Abuna Antonios, the third Patriarch of the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church, passed away. Born on July 12, 1927, in Himberti, to the north of Asmara, the Eritrean capital, Abuna Antonios began his traditional church education from the age of 5 at the Debre Tsege Abuna Endrias monastery. There he…
Tim was in Chicago from 19-26 April for a week’s meetings about LOI, and he and others were interviewed by John Maddex for an Ancient Faith Radio podcast. You can listen to it at: http://www.ancientfaith.com/podcasts/features/the_lausanne_orthodox_initiative. The group planning our consultations had a productive day advancing preparations not only for this year’s gathering in Cambridge but…
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…
We have received an invitation and call for papers for an International Conference at Bose, Italy from 21-24 October 2015. St. Andrew’s Biblical Theological Institute of Moscow, Russia announces an international conference co-organized with Monastery of Bose in Magnano, Italy on October 21-24, 2015. The theme of the conference is “History and Theology: Historical Conciousness as…