by Mitch Carnell | Jan 13, 2011 | Opinion
Our democracy is a fragile thing. The noble experiment we call the United States rests on the principle of mutual respect for one another. The question is as old as we are as a nation: Are ordinary human beings capable of governing themselves? No other country has...
by Mitch Carnell | Nov 11, 2010 | Opinion
If you want to change your life, change your attitude. If you want to change your relationships, change your language. If you want to change the world, change the way you communicate with it. What we have known and loved in the past is just that – past. We have...
by Mitch Carnell | Oct 5, 2010 | Opinion
Where are the voices of reason in today’s overheated, overreaching rhetorical environment? As midterm elections draw closer and bitterness over mosque construction has spread across the country, the discord within several denominations also grows louder. In...
by Mitch Carnell | Aug 19, 2010 | Opinion
With the dialogue concerning the construction of a mosque near Ground Zero heating up, I am reminded of a quote from Jonathan Swift: “We have enough religion to make us hate one another, but not enough to make us love one another.” The idea to construct a...
by Mitch Carnell | May 24, 2010 | Opinion
I grew up in a small cotton mill village in upper South Carolina during the last years of the Great Depression. Churches and schools were the town’s foundation. I was fortunate to have teachers who were not only skilled and caring academics, but who lived...
