Here's an "old thing" which relates, I think, to President Obama and the debate about civil religion---the primacy of practice.…
Wade Clark Roof
Wade Clark Roof is Professor of Religion and Society and Director of the Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion and Public Life at the University of California at Santa Barbara. His current research is focused on "Progressive Religion in the United States: New Priorities and Alliances," funded by the Ford Foundation.