Thursday 1 September is the Global Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation when Orthodox, Evangelical, Catholic and other Christian communities around the world come together to pray for God’s good earth and our responsible use of His gift to us.
Please see the background to this day and resources for prayer here and spend a few moments with us in prayer.
We are very pleased to be able to announce the publication (August 2015) of our first book The Mission of God : Studies in Orthodox and Evangelical Mission This important volume is the fruit of three years’ work by Orthodox and Evangelical scholars and two major international consultations. The collection of essays points a way…
Tim Grass and Brad Nassif are delighted to announce the appearance of the long-awaited special issue of the open-access online journal Religions on the theme of ‘Orthodoxy and Evangelicalism: Contemporary Issues in Global Perspective’. Articles are available for free download from: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/Orth_Evan#info. Contributors are drawn from many parts of the world, and many of the…
On April 12, LOI held an online discussion on Bradley Nassif’s new book The Evangelical Theology of the Orthodox Church. Fr Dragos Herescu a Romanian Orthodox parish priest and director of the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies, Cambridge, UK, Dr Danut Manastireanu, a Romanian Anglican theologian discussed with the author, Dr Bradley Nassif, a leading academic…
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…
The LOI Steering Group will meet at the Coptic Centre in Stevenage, UK, from 19 -21 January 2015. The two major issues before them will be the future work of LOI after 2015 and the planning of the 2015 consultation in Finland. The first of these topics is particularly critical at this time. It was never envisioned…
Tim was in Chicago from 19-26 April for a week’s meetings about LOI, and he and others were interviewed by John Maddex for an Ancient Faith Radio podcast. You can listen to it at: http://www.ancientfaith.com/podcasts/features/the_lausanne_orthodox_initiative. The group planning our consultations had a productive day advancing preparations not only for this year’s gathering in Cambridge but…