Jim Wallis on David Kuo and his book, Tempting Faith

I should say that I’ve known David Kuo for years. We met at a retreat and began a conversation that has lasted ever since. He was and is a conservative evangelical Christian, as he said on 60 Minutes, and he was quite unhappy with the many contradictions and hypocrisies of liberalism. I had to agree with much of his critique. But he also genuinely cared about the poor, and that was our point of connection. Kuo was one of those genuine “compassionate conservatives” that many liberals don’t believe really exist, but truly do. Yet he eventually came to realize that there weren’t many compassionate conservatives in the White House, which preferred to use the religious community for its own political purposes.

I too,  was impressed with the heart and passion Kuo has for authentic compassion (as opposed to political rhetoric about it). 

Source: Faith-Based Fraud, Sojourners Magazine/December 2006