Source: INcontext Ministries, January 1, 2016<\/p>\n
[Were] the Islamic State and the terror attacks in Iraq, Syria, and Paris really priority to most people during the past year? Were there dramatic changes in priorities after millions fled to Europe from North Africa? Did the looming economic crisis change perceptions and lifestyles? Apparently not!<\/p>\n
There are a number of ways to recap the past year. But how do you really get a twelve-month snapshot of a culture\u2019s zeitgeist? Dr. James Emery White writes<\/a> as follows:<\/p>\n \u201cI would argue for two words: \u2018Google searches.\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not saying that this will be what historians will mark in 10, much less 100 years, even less what is most significant. But I will say that it may be the clearest window into our current soul.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00bb Read full story including several \u201ctop 10\u201d lists<\/a> and find more data on Google Trends<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00bb See also an interesting infographic and analysis from Esquire and NBC looking at current events through the lens of what makes Americans mad<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: INcontext Ministries, January 1, 2016 [Were] the Islamic State and the terror attacks in Iraq, Syria, and Paris really priority to most people during the past year? Were there dramatic changes in priorities after millions fled to Europe from North Africa? Did the looming economic crisis change perceptions and lifestyles? Apparently not! There are … Continue reading WORLD: Window into Our Current Soul<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6114,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6113\/revisions\/6114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}