The communique from the 2014 LOI consultation was published today and can be seen at https://loimission.net/2014-communique/ where a .pdf copy can also be downloaded. Consultation participants are encouraged to send the communique to their churches, agencies and press outlets. Please add your own reflections and if you need pictures request these from f2s@faith2share.net
Book Review Edward Rommen Into all the World : An Orthodox Theology of Mission: New York, St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2017, 272 pages & bibliography Rommen will be well known to many of us as the author of Come and See: An Eastern Orthodox Perspective on Contextualisation , so it is no surprise to find…
One of the key note speakers from the 2013 Lausanne-Orthodox Initiative Consultation, Dr. Brad Nassif, has an interesting article in the current edition of Christianity Today. He writes about the theological convoversy concerning the Filioque, which has divided the Church for over 1,500 years. Reflecting on his grandmother’s recipe for hummus he suggests that this issue…
Stephen Hayes has just written an interesting short article on the differences between evangelism and proselytism – from his Orthodox perspective – on his blog. Click here to read it. If you have not come across Stephen before he is an Orthodox missiologist based in South Africa who hosts a missiology Yahoo group and writes…
Just days before the Lausanne-Orthodox Consultation takes place in Albania (15-19 September 2014) a similar group of people will meet in Chicago, USA, although they will come from Roman Catholic and Evangelical communities. Facilitated by John Armstrong, this Lausanne-Catholic Initiative was established at the same time as the LOI and has been working to create…
As we prepare for the second Lausanne-Orthodox Initiative consultation (in Albania from 15-19 September 2014) we are posting today the third of our three background articles on conversion. This third article, originally published in the IBMR in 2004, is by Dr. Chris Wright and draws on his rich biblical research. To download the article click…
The Global Christian Forum have just concluded their consultation, entitled Discrimination, Persecution, Martyrdom: Following Christ Together. This global gathering of 145 people took place from 2 – 4 November, 2015, in Tirana, Albania, a country that was declared by its constitution to be an atheist state in 1967, and now has flourishing churches in a…