LOI wishes to pay tribute to Protopresbyter Leonid Kishkovsky, who fell asleep in Christ on 3 August 2021. For more information, see the announcement by St Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary at https://www.svots.edu/
LOI wishes to pay tribute to Protopresbyter Leonid Kishkovsky, who fell asleep in Christ on 3 August 2021. For more information, see the announcement by St Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary at https://www.svots.edu/
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…
Dr. Paul Fiddes and Bishop Malkhaz Songulashvili (Baptists from the UK and Georgia respectively) have recently published an interesting article on “A dialogue between the Orthodox Church of Georgia and the ‘Evangelical Christian-Baptists’ of Georgia (1979-1980) with its wider Baptist context” in the International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church. This dialogue was…
At a ceremony hosted by Lambeth Palace in London yesterday the Lambeth Cross for Ecumenism was awarded by Archbishop Justin Welby to three leading ecumenists. Amongst the three was the co-chair of the Lausanne-Orthodox Initiative, His Grace Bishop Angaelos, General Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the United Kingdom. The other two recipients of the Lambeth Cross…
LOI Steering Committee member, Dr. Tim Grass, offers us this review of A Future and a Hope: Mission, Theological Education, and the Transformation of Post-Soviet Society, by Joshua Searle and Mykhailo T. Cherenkov (Published by Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2014. ISBN 978-1-4982-0252-7). If relationships between Orthodox and Evangelicals are to move forward, especially in…
The LOI board is about to meet for its annual residential gathering, when much of our planning is done. Please pray for us, as this year we shall focus especially on what our future strategy should be. We want to be more than an agency which just holds an annual consultation, and there is so…
The Coptic Church community in the UK today launched an appeal for support to assist the families of the 21 Coptic Christians from Egypt recently executed by the so called Islamic State in Libya. These men were all bread winners for poor rural families and the church now wishes to support the families in their…