The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki have announced a very interesting three week summer school for 2014 under the title “Learning about Orthodox Theology, past and present”. It will take place from 23 June to 12 July 2014 and will be taught in English.
Full details can be seen here Summer School
This week Archbishop Foley Beach led a delegation from the Anglican Church in North America for formal ecumenical discussions with the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church. They were received in Moscow by HE Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev, Head of the Department of External Church Relations. The Anglican Church in North America is the conservative church…
Following the publication earlier this month of LOI’s own book “The Mission of God: Studies in Orthodox and Evangelical Mission” one of our LOI participants from Bulgaria (and the UK), Dr. Valentin Kozhuharov, has also published his own book on this topic. Bringing together several journal articles and new material “Orthodox and Inter-Christian Perspectives in…
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…
This report comes from our good friend, Ramez Atallah, Senior Advisor to the Bible Society of Egypt: Through its Sunday School movement the Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt has been very committed to studying, memorizing and understanding the Bible. In the early 80s a new approach was introduced to Coptic university students which is how…
As the third international Lausanne-Orthodox Initiative consultation begins in Helsinki, Finland on Tuesday this week, the Steering Committee request pray for all those attending. The theme of this year’s consultation is “The Gospel as Good News“. The sixty three Evangelical and Orthodox participants will be gathering from countries as far apart as Ghana, Syria, USA,…
The death has just been announced of an eminent Orthodox scholar who is widely read by evangelical as well as Orthodox students of mission. Rev. Dr. Thomas Hopko served as Dean of St. Vladimir’s seminary in New York after many years on the staff there but is probably best known to a wider audience through…