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If I were Steve Waldman [of Beliefnet, Kuo's current employer], I would be thinking, "Gee, I hope David never leaves my company and writes another book!" You talk about a private meeting with John Ashcroft where you say he looked like he was trying to decide whether to tell you something or not—and then you tell us.

I talked to John about that.

It would have been helpful to know that as a reader.

I talked to everybody. Look, this book is neither inerrant nor infallible. This is one man's truly prayerful attempt at trying to sort through his life. It's a cautionary narrative.

Well, I do think that you come off looking the worst of anybody in the book, on the whole, and that's admirable in a way.

I hold myself up as an example of what not to become. There are twelve places I can list without thinking where I could have spared myself.

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Tempting Faith is available from ChristianBook.com and other book retailers.

Amy Black reviewed Kuo's book for Christianity Today sister publication Books & Culture.

Kuo blogs at Beliefnet, where he is Washington editor.

Excerpts are available from Beliefnet and ABC News.

Other interviews with Kuo have appeared at CBS's 60 Minutes, WBUR's OnPoint, NPR's Morning Edition, C-Span's Book TV, CBN's 700 Club, and Salon.com.

The New Republic has published several pieces on Tempting Faith, including a review from Alan Wolfe. The book also spurred an online debate between Amy Sullivan and Joe Loconte on evangelicals and the Bush administration.

Charles Colson criticized Kuo on his Breakpoint broadcast. Other commentaries are available from Amy Sullivan, Jim Wallis, the NRB (National Religious Broadcasters), E.J. Dionne, Marvin Olasky, and Stanley Carlson-Thies.

Crouch is a former Christianity Todaycolumnist and director of Christianity Today's Christian Vision Project. His writings can be found at Culture Makers.

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