Article May 22, 1995 Issue

Generation gap? Not in values!

by Kim Shippey

At the international Moral Re-Armament conferences held last year in Switzerland and Kenya, speakers at both gatherings remarked on the incredible speed at which much of the world has moved away from time-honored traditional values, and called for a reassessment of those values.

During an "intergenerational dialogue" at the conference in Caux, Switzerland, English journalist Edward Peters spoke with extraordinary honesty about what used to be called "the generation gap."

He openly admitted he wasn't sure where he belonged. "The young think I'm over the hill; the old think I'm an upstart. I see ample evidence within myself," he said, "of the things I react against in others, both younger and older than myself. I catch occasional glimpses within myself of the marvelously uniting honesty and vulnerability which I often see in those older and those younger than me. ... But I do know that comfort in my life takes—and always has taken—the form of wanting to be secure and certain, of not wanting to be challenged. This kind of comfort transcends age barriers."

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