by the Revd Clifford Skillen
First, a confession: I am not a child of the ‘80s; oh that I were – I’d be 30 years younger and not recoil in horror every time I pass a mirror. Yet, over four decades later, some of the most iconic and defining world events of that decade still seem so immediate, almost tangible: the Falklands War, Chernobyl, Lockerbie, Tiananmen Square and the fall of the Berlin Wall.
So too some of the ‘80s’ best–remembered nostalgia: eclectic fashions and a great pop culture; the international debut of Rubik’s Cube; E.T. and Dirty Dancing; and,…
