July 2010: FYI News Links

Conversations here and abroad, fyi:

Catholicos Elect Launches Website "MarMakarios.org"

Ecological Commission

The NorthWest USA Regional Conference 2010 see photos here.

Northeast Clergy Retreat 2010

Eastern USA Regional Conference 2010 see photos at here.

Also at the 2010 Eastern Conference: Ecumenical Dialog:
The Inaugural Address Text
by Dr. Michael Kinnamon at the 2010 Conference,
with the video of the Inaugural Address below:

Dr. Michael Kinnamon bio
The Rev. Dr. Michael Kinnamon, a Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) clergyman and a long-time educator and ecumenical leader, is the ninth General Secretary of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA.

And other voices among us here and abroad:

Let Us Be Reconciled With One Another – Shubqono Tenny Thomas, Indian Orthodox Herald

Apostolic continuity in history and eschatology commentary by Macrina on Zizioulas' "Theology of the Church"

Pentecost 2010: An Apostolic In-Gathering of One Catholic "Communio" Fr.B.Varghese, West Syrian Liturgical Theology

Eucharistic Ecclesiology: The Diptychs and The Last Things Fr.B.Varghese, West Syrian Liturgical Theology

Thanks for this video link to Notes on Arab Orthodoxy.
"Fr. Sidney Griffith: lecture and question-answer session re history of Arab Christianity at St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church in Cicero, Illinois.

n.b.
During my graduate studies at CUA
I audited a superb class on the Syriac Fathers
instructed by Fr. Griffith ~

A friend who attended the same patristics class with me at CUA
is Dr. Edward Alam, of Lebanon's Notre Dame University.
Dr. Alam is General Secretary for the international Council for Reasearch in Values and Philosophy.
See their page for Annual Seminars
and their page on International Conferences 2010 for a review of the global dialog.

Dr. Alam has also traveled extensively in Kerala, India, to re-visit the liturgical tradition of the Syriac Liturgy so well conserved in the Orthodox Church of India.