Burns Strider held an interesting position in Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. He was her religious-outreach guy, a senior staffer who did his best to explain how his candidate's religious faith motivated her policy positions. I met Burns in person once, had some interesting e-mail exchanges with him during the campaign. I found him to be a decent sort who was willing to exchange actual ideas beyond soundbites. I wondered if he'd go to work for Obama, a candidate who has generally been much better than Clinton at weaving religion-related themes into his public persona...