Papers & Reports

• Annual Report 2008
• Annual Report 2007
• Annual Report 2006
• Annual Report 2005
• Annual Report 2004
• Annual Report 2003
• Review of Activities 1994 -1998

For further information on activity in past years, visit the Archive pages.

• May 2009
• March 2009
• September 2008
• May 2008
• March 2008
• January 2008
• September 2007 - Receptive Ecumenism
• May 2007
• May 2006
• April 2006
• October 2005
• May 2005
• September 2004
• April 2004
• January 2004
• October 2003
• September 2003

For further information on activity in past years, visit the Archive pages.

Please also see the articles by our members published by Brill in Ecclesiology, the journal for Ministry, Mission and Unity, edited by Paul Avis, Director of the Church of England's Council for Chistian Unity and Canon Theologian of Exeter Cathedral. All previous editions are available by subscription on line, with an index of articles downloadable in PDF format.

Also, watch out for the newly re-launched One in Christ.

• Martin Conway: Must the Ecumenical Movement Change Course for the 21st Century?

• David Carter: Catholic-Orthodox Commission on Ecclesial Communion, Conciliarity and Primacy: The Ravenna Document, November 2007

• David Cornick: The future of ecumenism - Salvation Army Study Seminar, July 2008

• Nicholas Lash and Nicholas Sagovsky: What is 'a Church in the Proper Sense'? - AGM Study Seminar April 2008

• Michael Ipgrave: Are there limits to diversity? Discernment, Provocation and Retrieval - Cambridge, November 2008

• Reza Shah-Kazemi: Are there limits to diversity? Beyond Polemics and Pluralism: The Universal Message of the Qur’an - Cambridge, November 2008 and Cairo, January 2009

• David Carter: Catholic-Methodist Dialogue: The Eighth Report of the International Commission

• Hilary Martin: Together for Europe: Stuttgart Assembly, May 2007

• Anglican-Roman Catholic Relations: A Kick Start? 2007 AGM Study, with Dr Mary Tanner and Mgr Andrew Faley, and report by Mark Woodruff

• Martin Conway: Third European Ecumenical Assembly, Sibiu, Romanian September 2007

• Keith Clements: Breaking Down Walls in the Twenty-First Century - Who will move the first stone?

• Kathy Galloway: Breaking Down Walls in the Twnety-First Century - Identity & Belonging

• Freda Lambert: Women and Breaking Down Walls in the Twenty-First Century

• Ivana Noble: Ecumenism of Life as a Challenge for Academic Theology, 14th Consultation of Societas Oecumenica, Prague 2006

• Receptive Ecumenism & the Call to Ecumenical Learning: Conference Proceedings, with Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokelia, Bishop Christopher Hill of Guildford, Paul Fiddes, David Carter, Paul Murray, John McDade SJ, and a report by Mark Woodruff

• Cardinal Avery Dulles SJ: Saving Ecumenism from Itself December 2007, in First Things (external link by kind permission)

• David Carter: Receptive Ecumenism - An Overview

• Kallistos Ware, Metropolitan of Diokleia: Receptive Ecumenism - An Orthodox Perspective

• Professor Paul S. Fiddes: Learning Together - Baptists & Receptive Ecumenism

• Mark Woodruff: Catholic Learning: Explorations in Receptive Ecumenism: Ushaw College, Durham University Colloquium

• Martin Conway: The Ninth Assembly of the World Council of Churches at Porto Alegre, Brazil

• Pushing at the Boundaries of Unity: Recent Directions in Anglican-Baptist Dialogue, 2006 AGM Study, with Paul Fiddes and Paul Avis, and report by Mark Woodruff

• Mark Woodruff: London's Martyrs and Christian Disunity

• Martin Conway: Ecumenism of Life: The 14th Two-Yearly Consultation of Societas Oecumenica at Prague

• David Carter: Covenanting: Anglicans and British Methodists in 2005

• Stuart Wilson & Mark Woodruff: 2005 AGM Presentation on Ecumenical Faith Sharing Communities in the 'At Your Word, Lord' Parish Renewal Programme

• David Jones: Mary: Grace and Hope in Christ - Nicholas Sagovsky at the Annual Conference of the Diocese of Nottingham's Ecumenical Commission

• Martin Conway: Breaking Down Walls in the 21st Century - A Report on the Iona 2005 Week of Study, Prayer and Common Life

• Alison Elliot: Breaking Down Walls in the 21st Century - Ecumenical Role Models

• Kathy Galloway: Breaking Down Walls in the 21st Century - Voices from the Edge, the Judgement of the Worlds

• William Henn OFMCap: Breaking Down Walls in the 21st Century - The Strengths and Weaknesses of the Ecumenical Movement So Far

• Hilary Martin: Sharing Communion in a Hungry World - Report on the 2005 Churches Together in England Conference for National and Ecumenical Officers, Parmoor

• Archbishop Vincent Nichols: The Eucharist as Event - Keynote Address to the 2005 Churches Together in England Conference for National and Ecumenical Officers, Parmoor

• The Ecumenical Margins: Christian Unity for the Edges of Church and Society 2004 Conference Report
• The Experience of the Eucharist in Ecumenical Study: 2004 AGM Colloquium, with Ruth Reardon and Judith Maizel-Long
• Maximos Lavriotes: The Thanksgiving of Eastern Christendom: Eucharist and Communion
• Jean Mayland: The Ecumenical Margins: The Ecumenism of the Marginalised
• John O'Toole: The Ecumenical Margins: Is It People or Unity at the Edge?
• Garnet Parris: The Ecumenical Margins: Ecumenism and Education
• Mark Woodruff: The Ecumenical Margins: Re-Learning Unity from the Voluntary Sector

• 2003 Members' Weekend Residential Conference Report: May they all be one ... but how?'
• The Ecumenical Pilgrimage: Pointers for the Next Steps - October 2003 Day Conference Report

• Bishop Joe Aldred: One: But How? - The Sermon at The May 2003 St Albans Conference on a Vision of Christian Unity for the next Generation
• Amanda Hill: George Spencer, Ecumenical Pioneer
• Cardinal Walter Kasper: 'May they all be one....but how?' - A Vision of Christian Unity for the next Generation
• St Albans 2003 Speakers: 'May they all be one....but how?' - Transcript of Panel Discussion and Questions
• Elizabeth Welch: 'May they all be one....but how?' - A Vision of Christian Unity for the next Generation
• Archbishop Rowan Williams: 'May they all be one....but how?' - A Vision of Christian Unity for the next Generation (summary)
• Archbishop Rowan Williams: 'May they all be one....but how?' - A Vision of Christian Unity for the next Generation (full text)
• Mark Woodruff: Paul Couturier, the Week of Prayer and the the Unity of Humanity in Christ

• David Carter: The Holy Spirit and Ecumenism - A Report from the 2002 Bose Conference
• David Carter: Methodism & Ecclesiology in 2002
• Martin Conway: Can Britain Re-Imagine Itself as a Multi-cultural Nation?
• Martin Conway: Conference Report from Selly Oak - "The Ecumenical Movement: The developing scene in Britain and on the World stage"
• Martin Conway: Tradition in Eastern Orthodoxy
• Diaconate: 2002 AGM Debate between Paul Avis & Tom Bruch
• Michael Ipgrave: Reflections on Conversion in Inter-Faith Contexts
• Mary Tanner: The Work of the Special Commission on Orthodox Participation in the WCC in a Broader Perspective

• Sven-Erik Brodd: The Diaconate in Lutheran Traditions

• David Carter: The Spirituality of Ecumenical Dialogue
• Marianne Dorman: The Ecumenism of Andrewes and other Caroline Divines
• Marianne Dorman: Lancelot Andrewes and the Caroline Divines' Teaching on the Blessed Virgin Mary
• Joyce Martin: An Irenic Theologian: William Forbes, First Bishop of Edinburgh

• David Carter: Called To Love and Praise: The Methodist Ecclesiology Report, its Ecumenical Influences and Implications
• Martin Conway: Christian Unity-in-Diversity in the New Millennium
• Murdoch Mackenzie: Passion and Prejudice - An Ecumenical Exploration: The Richard Steward Memorial Lecture

• David Carter: Nicholas Sagovsky on Progress with ARCIC
• Fidelis Daly CP: Women in the Ecumenical Movement
• Liz Taite and Pat Witney: The Focolare Movement and Ecumenism

• Martin Cressey: Consultations between United and Uniting Churches
• Martin Conway: Agenda for the Ecumenical Movement in the 21st Century
Martin Conway: Marks and Processes of Unity in Christ for the World Wide Church in an Age of Unity-in-Diversity
• Martin Conway: The Open Secret for the Open Society - Unity, Mission and Social Responsibility
• Barney Milligan: The Ecumenical Movement as a Way of Healing Memory
• Donald Norwood: Grace and Truth from Graz 1997
• Martin & Ruth Reardon: Interchurch Families and the Ecumenical Movement

• Faith Bowers: Baptism - A Baptist Perspective