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This piece was originally published in the October Terminus Report. Click here to subscribe to the monthly newsletter.   Terminus global city partners gather every other month for a conference call to see each other and talk through the ministry dynamics in global cities. We spend time looking at

This piece was originally published in the October Terminus Report. Click here to subscribe to the monthly newsletter.   Welcome to Damansara, an influential neighborhood nestled in the hills of metropolitan Kuala Lumpur. It’s a place of contrasts: socioeconomic, religious, and ethnic. If the nation’s mantra, Malaysia Truly Asia,

If you knew me, you would know that I have not been gifted with the body of a climber. However, a few years ago I became somewhat obsessed with the Oscar-winning documentary Free Solo, which captures Alex Honnold’s breathtaking ascent of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park: 2,900 feet

The world is urbanizing at a pace of millions of additional people in cities each month. Global cities now gather the nations into single neighborhoods, bringing extraordinary opportunity and real complexity. Attempts at innovative mission activity create new fault lines. Competing definitions of fruitfulness create tension across the missions

nora: profile of a 21st century globalite Meet Nora, a Muslim woman from Bandung, Indonesia, a sprawling metro of around 8.5 million people. Between studying at a local university and enrolling in an English Connect program, her language proficiency advanced quickly [1]. The pursuit of linguistic fluency in a

When considering the missio Dei and local churches’ part to play in it, few things are more foundational and important than a biblical understanding of the church. At Terminus, we want a robust biblical ecclesiology not to be something we arrive at along the way or figure out pragmatically,