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
The Ecumenical Patriarch said today he hoped for a continuing exchange of Orthodox and Anglican students to aid the two Churches’ relationship. His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew was speaking today during his welcome of the Anglican Communion’s spiritual head Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby. He said, “In the past, the rapprochement between our two Churches…
As the long anticipated pan-Orthodox Great and Holy Synod approaches discussion is building up around the draft documents which have been issued on the six key areas of discussion. It has been agreed that participants will focus their deliberations on: The Mission of the Orthodox Church in Today’s World The Orthodox Diaspora Autonomy and the means by…
An unexpected aspect of the arrival of hundreds of thousands of displaced people from various Middle Eastern countries is the exponential increase in membership and attendance of Orthodox churches in parts of Western Europe. The Media Project, which reports on the role of religion in public life, has run an article on developments in Sweden, exploring how…
Following the publication earlier this month of LOI’s own book “The Mission of God: Studies in Orthodox and Evangelical Mission” one of our LOI participants from Bulgaria (and the UK), Dr. Valentin Kozhuharov, has also published his own book on this topic. Bringing together several journal articles and new material “Orthodox and Inter-Christian Perspectives in…
We are pleased to be able to announce the recent publication of a brand new (2nd.) Romanian edition of the classic text “Three views on Orthodoxy and Evanelicalism” edited by Bradley Nassif, Michael Horton, Vladimir Berzonsky, George Hancock-Stefan and Edward Rommen. This Romanian edition carries new forwards by two of our LOI participants, Prof. Stelian Tofana…
The picture in this post does not depict the people and conversations referred to by the author. One day during the Lausanne – Orthodox Initiative 2014 consultation I found myself disturbed. I was upset because I felt like other members of my discussion group were not taking my experience and point of view seriously. I…