Salt: A Global Community: From MinZu, China to Athens, Greece

We first met online, during the International Conference “Salt of the Earth: Orthodoxy and Otherness in the Modern World” organized by the Journal Salt, Crossroads of Religion and Culture and the Dean’s Office at the Theological Faculty of the National an Kapodistrian University of Athens in November 2022. This was a significant sign on Salt’s […]

Christine Mangala Frost: Memory eternal!

By Razvan Porumb and Elizabeth Theokritoff Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies, Cambridge The Orthodox community in Cambridge – particularly the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies (IOCS), the Romanian parish of St John the Evangelist and the Russian parish of St Ephraim the Syrian – was heartbroken when Dr Christine Mangala Frost passed to the Lord on […]

Mission in a Wounded World

Orthodox mission scholars and practitioners meet during the International Association for Mission Studies’ conference in Sydney, Australia, July 7 th – 11 th , 2022   By Dr Alison Kolosova The 15th General Assembly of the International Association for Mission Studies (IAMS) tookplace in Sydney, Australia from July 7th -11th 2022. The Assembly had originally […]

Witnesses of the Resurrection: Orthodox Mission in the Contemporary World (online webinars)

Christ is Risen! The Missiology Group of the International Orthodox Theological Association https://iota-web.org/  extends a warm invitation to attend our online webinar series 2021: Witnesses of the Resurrection: Orthodox Mission in the Contemporary World With the aim of encouraging a broader conversation within the Orthodox churches on the theme of Christian witness in today’s world, the IOTA […]

Starting Points

SEASONED WITH SALT: BLOG 2 by Karen Hetherington I’ve recently been setting up a study space at my home down in the depths of the South West of England. Most of the last twenty years has been spent balancing home and raising children with a busy job and now I’m at the stage where the […]

Mission breathing new life into threatened cultures

SEASONED WITH SALT Karen Hetherington in conversation with Alison Kolosova SALT aims to bring missiological research and discussion to a more prominent place in the Orthodox Church and to bring some of the key concerns to a wider group of people. In this series of blogs, Karen Hetherington will be interviewing some of the people […]

Metropolitan Gregory of Cameroon (Stergiou)

“The African community is now at an important stage in the process of claiming its position and identity in the world. The fact that Africa has accepted the Christian message to a great extent should not allow those responsible for the sowing of the Gospel to rest on their laurels, but rather they should constantly […]

Dr. Alison Ruth Kolosova

“The Church is called to witness to God’s salvific presence and action in the world through the inculturation of the apostolic faith in local contexts.  There is a pressing need for a journal where reflection on the missionary dimension of the Orthodox Church in the contemporary world can take place alongside a re-articulation of her […]