The World Council of Churches (WCC) Ecumenical Institute in Bossey, Switzerland is inviting applications for its academic programmes in ecumenical studies, 2015-2016. This highly regarded institute offers a Complementary Certificate in Ecumenical Studies; a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Ecumenical Studies; and a Master of Advanced Studies in Ecumenical Studies. Ecumenical learning at the Institute…
The LOI Steering Committee is pleased to be able to announce that its 2015 Consultation will be held in Finland at the invitation of the Orthodox Church of Finland and with the warm support of the Evangelical Alliance. Finland has the rare distinction of having two ‘state Churches’, Lutheran and Orthodox, and makes an ideal…
The Orthodox Mission Network (OMN) has just published its latest newsletter with information about Orthodox mission developments around the world. They are able to report the printing of the first Orthodox book in the local language in Vietnam as well as other books in the Philippines. In Kenya work continues with a secondary school and in India…
The 23rd. International Ecumenical Conference on Orthodox Spirituality, it has been announced, will be held at Bose, Switzerland from 9-12 September 2015 in collaboration with the Orthodox Churches. They will meet under the title “Mercy and forgiveness”, as chosen by the scientific committee of the ecumenical conferences, which met in Bose on 4-5 October 2014….
I just came across the September-October 2014 edition of Mission Frontiers the journal of the US Centre for World Mission (who were represented at our 2013 LOI consultation). This very interesting edition focuses on “Ethno-Doxology : Worship and Mission for the Global Church”. In a number of well researched and well written articles the contributors…
Stimulated by the two responses given to his paper when the LOI Initiative met in Albania last month, Dr. Elmer Theissen has now written a further contribution to the debate. On the final day at St. Vlash Dr. Theissen presented a challenging paper on the ethics of evangelism. This paper received appreciative but robust responses…
In the past few weeks, since 60 Evangelical and Orthodox leaders met in Albania for the second Lausanne-Orthodox Consultation on the theme “The Mission of God”, news of the event has slowly spread around the world. We are aware of reports appearing in India, the USA, Serbia, Finland, Romania and several other places. The Serbian Orthodox Church…
In May 2009, Bradley Nassif, Professor of Theology at North Park University in Chicago visited Romania for the launch of the Romanian translation of the book Three Views on Eastern Orthodoxy and Evangelicalism,[1] which took place at the University of Cluj. During that visit, Dr. Nassif told me about an Orthodox project that might benefit…
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 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…