{"id":104,"date":"2006-12-01T19:51:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-01T19:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jwalking\/2006\/12\/busted-halo-interview.html"},"modified":"2006-12-01T19:51:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-01T19:51:00","slug":"busted-halo-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jwalking\/2006\/12\/busted-halo-interview.html","title":{"rendered":"Busted Halo interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For my interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bustedhalo.com\/index.htm\">Busted Halo,<\/a> an online magazine for spiritual seekers in their 20s and 30s, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bustedhalo.com\/features\/DavidKuoInterview.htm\">here<\/a>.  Here is one of the exchanges:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">BH: This seems to be a theme in your life: the struggle between political differences and how they extend into the spiritual realm. You\u2019ve been advocating in your book and in your recent Op-Ed piece in the New York Times that Christians fast from politics for the next two years. You\u2019re calling on people to continue to vote but instead of getting caught up in political campaigning they need to place the energy usually reserved for politics and use it for prayer, learning, service to the poor etc. Do you think taming those political instincts is possible? Is two years even enough time?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">DK: (laughter) Gosh, that\u2019s a hard question. I chose 2 years not because I felt like I had some divine revelation but because it seemed a natural period of time, considering releasing the book in \u201906 and then in \u201908 there\u2019s the presidential election which is going to be the most crazy insane election that there is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">But also, frankly, because I believe in the counterintuitive nature of God. And so, the God who says \u2018Blow your trumpets to take down a city,\u2019 a God who says \u2018die that you may live\u2019 may well be the God who says, \u2018Fast from politics and I will bring you your desires. I will give you what you want.\u2019 Maybe it is the act of humility, the spiritual act of humility that a fast involves that can bring about the kind of change that we need and we all long for frankly. It was best encapsulated in that little story that I told about a guy who came up to me after I spoke at a church and said, \u2018Hey, hey. Tell President Bush to fix the Supreme Court.\u2019 And I was like, \u2018Maybe, maybe we need to fix ourselves.\u2019<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For my interview with Busted Halo, an online magazine for spiritual seekers in their 20s and 30s, click here. 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