Matt Schultz

History has shown us repeatedly what happens when we try to brand our politics with the name of Jesus.

This law weaponizes religion, transforming it from a pathway to meaning and compassion into a cudgel that forces people to fall in lockstep.

Here in this temporary respite from the cacophonous grind of partisan sniping, Anchorage can seize a brief moment for reflection.

Through our policies, we are making it clear that if we see you in a ditch, we will just keep on driving past.

In our outrage over the effects of homelessness, we can sometimes forget that homeless people are, first and foremost, people.

There is more to life than toil, more than the mere acquisition of food and shelter.

Camp abatement and sheltering in the Sullivan don’t address the causes of homelessness, nor do they create ways out of it.

Blood would not have been spilled at Club Q if churches in the U.S. had not spent decades ostracizing and demonizing gay people.

Over the past few years, discourse has been replaced by diatribes as basic kindness and respect have been kicked to the curb.

As Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel said, “Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”

Who we love and care about should not be limited only to those who are on “our side.”

Unity is a shared goal. But unless it is built on truth, confession and repentance, it is not unity at all, but cowardice.

The campaign against Justice Carney is a blatant attempt to impose the narrow view of the few at the expense of the solid foundation of the law.

Though not all opposition to the plan was racist — far from it — by the end of testimony, the accumulated racism was undeniable.

With COVID-19 cases again on the rise, history again demands we respond, and the call to action is clear.