I'm thinking of practical basics in our Mennonite faith. And the wisdom of the Anabaptist concept of the Lord's supper as a meal of people gathered around a table. This becomes a ritual core and faith experience for the shaping of community. In the global village, people need human-face community. All of this is better done without barbed-wire.
Barbed wire holds tightly to one's cattle or to one's sense of truth.
When you are practical, you don't get overly wedded to your truth. Rather, you keep seeking what works out there, you test and observe and learn what grows food on the prairie, or what makes for peace and holiness and justice in the global village. There is commitment, but there is fluidity in it. Perhaps it is like moving onto land, and not putting up fences. Like the settlers, plains Indians were deeply practical.