Author and pastor Andrew Wilson highlights seven major developments from the year 1776―globalization, the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, the Great Enrichment, the American Revolution, the rise of post-Christianity, and the dawn of Romanticism―and explains their relevance to social changes happening today. He uses the acronym W.E.I.R.D.E.R. to explain how our Western culture is distancing itself from Christianity, even though Christian morals have greatly influenced the development of Western society.