Kuo (by the way, Kuo is an excellent blogger,  see the link to J-walking below)  reacts to a comment by someone who may be an old acquaintance:

Commenter: You are walking on a very slippery slope. We are not to be of this world but set apart. The approval of a liberal audience is not being set apart.

Kuo: I just fundamentally disagree that any approval from a liberal audience means that I would not be set apart from the world (unless the definition is political instead of spiritual). I am excited if anyone–a communist, a socialist, a libertarian, a conservative, a Yankees fan (sorry)–is more interested in Jesus, and I think Jesus thinks the same thing.

Source: David Kuo: J-Walking, David Kuo blog, faith, politics, Christian blog, tempting faith

“The approval of a liberal audience is not being set apart”  I am somehow suspicious of that warning.  Would this be less egregious than the approval of a conservative audience?

But if anyone has read the book–and I don’t think that this woman has–they will quickly see that I have exposed myself very vulnerably to the world. While “Tempting Faith” has been seen as a political book and there are certainly very political parts, it is a deeply personal book. I talk about finding Jesus after a friend’s death in high school and about being part of an abortion in college. I am so very clear that I am the one who was first seduced to trade Jesus for political gain, and I am hardest on myself. In other words, I have tried to humble myself.