Editorial February 11, 1991 Issue

A time to build—this time on bedrock

Allison W. Phinney, Jr.

People seem willing and able now to think more clearly about what was going on in the eighties.

Looking back from the perspective of the nineties, they can see that the high-flying materialism of drugs, unrestricted sex, corporate raiding, high-powered leveraging, and all the rest wasn't by any means as natural as it seemed to many at the time. It wasn't the stuff of dream but of nightmares.

The world cries out for more stability and sanity in the decade ahead. A verse from Psalms in the Bible says it in a way that seems timeless: "From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed; lead me to the rock that is higher than I."

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