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...away from the pretensions of “save-the-world” politicking is—at its core—a revolt against a particularly pernicious Enlightenment ideal, which assigned the task of social change to the “best and the brightest”. As Immanuel Wallerstein has argued, because thinkers in that tradition believed that rational thought promised progress, “it followed that normal political change ought to follow the path indicated by those who were most rational—that is, most educated, most skilled, therefore most wise...
...weeps again, sitting by Anabella before a group of priests, ministers, a rabbi, a cantor and a Muslim Koranic chanter in the Angelica Lutheran Church in Los Angeles' Pico-Union district. Her pastor, the Rev. Frank Alton of nearby Immanuel Presbyterian, is preaching her into her new life here under a kind of benevolent house arrest. Alton's text is Leviticus 19: 33: "The stranger who dwells among you shall be to you as one born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt." Alton concludes, "The New Sanctuary Movement...
Contreras was a celebrant at Yolanda Sanctuary's welcome service at Angelica Lutheran. Soon she will move to a room back at her home church, Immanuel Presbyterian, which has not quite finished remodeling a space for her. Later, perhaps, she will stay with another in the cluster of churches committed to her support. How long will she do this? "I don't know," she says, shrugging. "I don't know if I'll wake up tomorrow." But, she adds, "I have faith that this will touch the heart of the people so they can help us with this situation...
...Summers assailed the tenure-review process, proposing a presumably hypothetical scenario in a possibly hypothetical department: “There’s someone who might be the next Immanuel Kant but is a little bit difficult. And the philosophy department decides that they would rather make their lives easier than have the next Immanuel Kant. Who reviews that decision...
...Ford wrote in her diary, a little pointedly, "There aren't going to be any more private services in the East Room for a select few." During his first Sunday as President, Ford and his wife went to the same church they had attended for more than 20 years: Immanuel-on-the-Hill in Alexandria...