This article is significant in pointing to Metropolitan Kallistos’ key role in ecumenical relations for which LOI is very grateful: TRUE MAN: KALLISTOS OF OXFORD AS ORTHODOXY’S FIRST UNIVERSAL TEACHER OF THE GLOBAL AGE
At least seventy church leaders, mission workers and seminary teachers, including a number of younger leaders, gathered at Selwyn College, Cambridge, last week for four days of prayer, study and conversation around the topic of ‘Theological Formation for Mission’. Coming from places as diverse as Alaska, South Africa, and South Korea, they were able to form…
This Friday the Aqueduct Project is hosting an online presentation by James Payton Jr in connection with his new book on Orthodox thinking about salvation, The Victory of the Cross. It will be followed by a panel discussion in which Tim Grass as LOI Facilitator will share. You are welcome to observe. For details, click…
A good friend of LOI recently published a fascinating article on some significant women in the history of the churches of the Middle East. Please take a look at here.
Over the years, I’ve read quite a few accounts of people transitioning (I don’t want to use the word ‘converting’, as conversion is to Christ) from Evangelicalism to Orthodoxy. There don’t seem to be many published about folk moving in the opposite direction, but if there were I’d devour those too. (Suggestions, please!) A friend…
We are pleased to report on the successful annual conference of the Central and Eastern European Association of Mission Studies (CEEAMS) which was held in Heiligenkreuz, near Vienna between the 10 – 13 February 2015. Its theme was, Beyond the Iron Curtain: Being Church in Central and Eastern Europe twenty five years after the political changes. The…