LOI’s 2017 consultation begins tomorrow, 5 September. For the programme, go to: https://loimission.net/loi-2017/. We eagerly anticipate a feast of good things, but we also want it to issue in practical action.
We hope to make some of the papers available after the consultation, and will also post a full report.
Please remember us in your prayers. Pray especially that Orthodox and Evangelicals will find ways of doing mission together which are marked by love, integrity, and mutual respect.
The Coptic Church Centre at Stevenage in England was, as usual, the venue for the annual residential meeting of the LOI Board. The main item we discussed was next year’s consultation, scheduled for 5-8 June at Holy Cross Orthodox Seminary near Boston. The theme is ‘Discipleship’, following on from the upcoming CWME gathering in Tanzania….
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…
The World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) reports that, “Dr. Geoff Tunnicliffe, Secretary General of the WEA recently met with the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I, in Istanbul, Turkey. Together they discussed the current crisis and the plight of Christians in Syria, Iraq and the Middle East region. A specific emphasis of the conversation was on…
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…
Anglican and Oriental Orthodox Church leaders meeting in the UK have shared their fears about the future of Christianity in the Middle East. This was the first Anglican-Oriental Orthodox International Commission in 12 years. The dialogue’s central topic was the Holy Spirit, but Christian persecution in countries across the Middle East was inevitably a key…
Christian faith is a journey which sometimes takes us across traditions, an experience that lies at the heart of the Lausanne-Orthodox Initiative (LOI). LOI has organised a Zoom gathering to stimulate conversations about spiritually enriching journeys, especially encounters between the Evangelical and Orthodox Christian traditions. You are warmly invited to attend this one-hour Zoom event,…