The Victory of the Cross

Danut Manastireanu writes: Rev. Ovidiu Dorin Druhora, a Romanian Pentecostal serving in Los Angeles, USA, has just published, in Romanian, the result of his doctoral research on Evangelical–Orthodox relations in America. The book, for which the author kindly asked me to write the Afterword, is titled The Case for Dialogue: Protestantism and Orthodoxy [Pledoarie pentru…

Lausanne Orthodox Initiative Collaboration in Mission EGYPT June 2013 You can download a PDF of this report here Orthodox and evangelicals each have a rich and unique missions history but no modern history of collaborating in missions together.  The Lausanne Orthodox Initiative leadership, in keeping with its goal to work towards better understanding, cooperation, and…

We are very grateful to Deacon Gill Kimber for allowing us to share a copy of her dissertation paper MISSION IMPOSSIBLE?: Developing an understanding of the task of interconfessional mission with reference to the Romanian Orthodox Church and Romanian evangelical and Baptist churches in Transylvania here on the LOI website. Gill’s extensive and challenging paper…

The Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies in Cambridge, UK, has announced its annual conference, taking place between 8-10 September 2014, at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. The conference will address the topic: Logos – Cosmos – Eros: Horizons and Limitations of Russian Religious Philosophy. The aim of the conference is twofold. First, it discusses and evaluates the…

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…

As we prepare for the second Lausanne-Orthodox Initiative consultation (in Albania from 15-19 September 2014) we are posting today the third of our three background articles on conversion. This third article, originally published in the IBMR in 2004, is by Dr. Chris Wright and draws on his rich biblical research. To download the article click…