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Article: New readings.(Reading the Bible with the Damned)(Book review)
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- Sojourners Magazine
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- July 1, 2006
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Reading the Bible with the Damned, by Bob Ekblad. Westminster John Knox Press.
Bob Ekblad has been reading the Bible with people who live on the margins--Chicano gang members, prison inmates, and undocumented Mexican immigrants in the United States, among others--for more than a quarter-century.
The director of Tierra Nueva and the People's Seminary in Burlington, Washington, Ekblad focuses on serving and being in solidarity with people who live in poverty or who find themselves excluded from mainstream society. He uses his remarkable life experience and background as a Presbyterian minister to teach people that the Bible is God's word of liberation for ...