Perception and Identity A Study of the Relationship between the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and Evangelical Churches in Ethiopia Ethiopia is an icon of freedom and indigenous Christianity across Africa due to its historic independence, ancient Christian identity and rich religious heritage. However, Ethiopia and its various Christian denominations have their own understandings of this identity…
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…
I am delighted to let you know that we can now make available the podcasts from LOI 2018, at https://loimission.net/loi-2018-discipleship-and-christian-formation/loi-2018-resources/. Please feel free to share these and spread the word about what we believe is a valuable resource on this practical topic, which is rarely considered by Orthodox and Evangelicals together.
Review of THEOLOGICAL, HISTORICAL, AND CULTURAL REASONS FOR ANTI-ECUMENICAL MOVEMENTS IN EASTERN ORTHODOXY, by Pantelis Kalaitzidis, in The Orthodox Handbook on Ecumenism, ed. Pantelis Kalaitzidis, Thomas FitzGerald et. al, Regnum Studies in Global Christianity (Oxford: Regnum Books International, 2014), pages 134-52, online at: http://www.ocms.ac.uk/regnum/downloads/Orthodox_Handbook_on_Ecumenism-Watermarked.pdf LOI is deeply interested in ways for Evangelical and Orthodox Christians…
Some of you may have wondered why you had heard so little from LOI during 2019. The reason is that our website was undergoing a makeover. It took a while to get everything sorted out and I didn’t want to complicate things by making changes during that process! However, we are now back in business,…
Following a recent meeting of the LOI board, plans are now well advanced for the next major LOI consultation. This will be a regional consultation for leaders from the Middle East and North Africa and will be held in Egypt in November 2019 at the invitation of the Coptic Church. The theme will be Christian…
Inspiring, healing, a foretaste of heaven, a fulfilment of the LOI Commitment – some of the comments from participants on the recent consultation on ‘Discipleship and Christian Formation’. Among the 60 who attended were representatives from various streams of the Evangelical and Orthodox traditions, including a number of local leaders. We sought to learn from…
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…
Matthew Baker and Todd Speidell, eds, T. F. Torrance and Eastern Orthodoxy: Theology in Reconciliation. Eugene OR: Wipf & Stock, 2015. pp. xi + 359. $44. Reviewed by Dr Ralph Lee, SOAS, University of London; formerly of Holy Trinity Theological College, Addis Ababa This set of fifteen essays written by scholars from a wide range…
I grew up in a Greek Orthodox family with a very pious and faithful mother, who loved Christ. Our family attended church regularly and participated in the Liturgy. In my freshman college year at Lafayette College, I had a deeper spiritual awakening to Christ through a course in the New Testament which was required for…