Amy Sullivan is one of the most thoughtful champion of "faith-based Democrats," a growing wing of the party that seeks to reconcile public square religion with liberalism. She's an advocate of that approach, yes, but she's also a journalist who recognizes that to make her case she needs facts and persuasive arguments, not the kind of rightward shuffle practiced by the cynical centrists of the Democratic Leadership Council. An example of her approach can be found in this excerpt from her new book, The Party Faithful: How Democrats are Closing the Faith Gap, in Time, where Amy's an editor. Her story partakes of a certain amount of conservative framing -- she writes of the Democratic Party's "traditional fight- or-flight reaction to religion," a "tradition" that goes back no further than the Kerry campaign -- but the Democratic trend toward greater religiosity she identifies is an important one, and nobody understands it better than Amy. You can catch her in person in New York, Los Angeles, and Washington during the coming weeks.