by Mitch Carnell | Nov 22, 2017 | Opinion
Who was the funniest person in your family? Who was the most serious? Who was the caretaker? Who was the prankster? Family stories are important. They tell who you are and where you came from. My grandfather had the greatest laugh I had ever known until our son,...
by Mitch Carnell | Nov 10, 2017 | Opinion
I heard the devastating news of the shooting at First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Texas, when I returned home from church. The horror of that incident is almost too much to comprehend. How can a single individual harbor that much hate? I have no idea. I am...
by Mitch Carnell | Aug 23, 2017 | Opinion
“The Invisible Women: Naming and Proclaiming the Forgotten Women in Scripture and Church Law” is a book of great consequence. Through Sister Sandra Makowski’s superb writing, research and scholarship, the poor treatment of women in the Bible,...
by Mitch Carnell | May 1, 2017 | Opinion
Peter Gomes, the former minister of Memorial Church, said in a 2004 convocation address to the Harvard Divinity School, “Silence is death, and we with our skills and talents have never been more needed than now.” His words were never more appropriate than...
by Mitch Carnell | Oct 7, 2016 | Opinion
President Obama struck the right note when speaking about the police shooting in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. “We need to temper our words and open our hearts,” he said following the mid-July killing of three officers. Words are powerful. They have the power to...
