Brown shirts, blue shirts, black shirts: they were the unfortunate rainbow coalition of societies whose civic cultures were in crisis during the dark middle decades of the twentieth century. (firstthings.com)
I believe that its presence as a presupposition of efforts to generate a new civic culture can be signified and lived sacramentally in a variety of ways by religious groups involved in the dialogue. (religion-online.org)
When America's civic culture promulgates its acronymic exhortations, it announces its own impotence as a formative culture. (firstthings.com)