Remember back to your days at Chatham Hall and the lively conversations at those tables. In the late 60's, when I was a student at Chatham Hall, we heard much about the generation gap. Many felt that the Vietnam War was a catalyst for a generational disparity in thinking. It was discussed in the news and here in the chapel, by adults and by us during our much feared chapel talks. Standing here before you today I must confess, is not too dissimilar from the time I stood here some 32 years ago.
Today there are new terms to describe different generational thinking.
We are living in a period given the name 'post-modernism'. Perhaps that's a familiar term to you. It's relatively new to me, though after a recent concentrated focus on it, it seems to turn up in all my reading material. Postmodernism is a reaction to modernism. The term 'postmodern' is characterized by no objective truth that can be proven through reason.