by Mitch Carnell | Nov 2, 2020 | Opinion
How long does it take to be nice? When we launched the Say Something Nice Day movement almost 15 years ago, it never crossed my mind that the model for rudeness and insensitivity would be the president of the United States. How do you teach civility to young people...
by Mitch Carnell | May 29, 2020 | Opinion
“Can we switch families for the next phase of shelter in place?” This tongue-in-cheek question reveals the perils of constant contact with the same person or persons. Before COVID-19, the complaint was that I do not have enough time for my family. The pandemic has...
by Mitch Carnell | May 30, 2019 | Opinion
Words matter. That was the topic of 40 essays I read recently written by middle school and high school students from a private Christian school. Every one of these privileged students wrote from a negative viewpoint. One or two did contrast positive speech and...
by Mitch Carnell | Mar 29, 2018 | Opinion
I helped launch the Say Something Nice Day movement 13 years ago. Never in my wildest imagination did I think that the greatest barriers to our success would become a president of the United States and evangelical Christians who support his coarse way of communicating...
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...
