Our Anchor in a World Adrift

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Our Anchor in a World Adrift: 7 Stats You Need to Know to Serve the King

Jon Hirst and Marlene Legaspi-Murar. Publisher: GMI, 2016.

96 pages
ISBN: 978-1941405307
ASIN: B01EXPB6U0

Summary

Jon Hirst is the director of Global Mapping International (GMI), that focuses on mission data and research. With so much data now available it is easy to miss important major global developments. This book cuts through the clutter and focuses on significant shifts that are re-making our world. Hirst tackles seven topics that are changing our world: An unprecedented refugee crisis, economic instability, unemployment, personal disconnection in our digitally connected world evolving sexual morality, why the world’s biggest cities are growing more secular, secularism and worldwide suicide, and spirituality.

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