Iconocast Episode 35: Bob Ekblad, part two

August 4, 2011the Iconocast Collective

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This is the second of a two part interview with Bob Ekblad. For part one, go here.

Bob Ekblad is executive director of Tierra Nueva and The People’s Seminary in Burlington, Washington. Tierra Nueva is an ecumenical ministry located in Burlington, Washington, that seeks to share the Good News of God’s liberation in Jesus Christ with migrant farmworkers, jail inmates, and Skagit Valley gang members. A minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), Bob holds a ThD in Old Testament and is known internationally for his courses and workshops on reading the Bible.  Bob and his wife Gracie minister at Tierra Nueva and at their home-based retreat center New Earth Refuge. Bob is the author of Reading the Bible with the Damned and A New Christian Manifesto: Pledging Allegiance to the Kingdom of God.

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Intro and bumper music for this episode is De Usuahia a la Quiaca by Gustavo Santaolalla.

Tagged as: bob ekblad, charismatic, holy spirit, Iconocast, liberation, pentecostal

  • Steve Schallert

    Listen to this conversation has been so inedibly encouraging to me! My wife and I are apart of a world “missions” umovement (for lack of a better word)call YWAM…it’s very evangelical/charismatic in some of it’s expression and yet we have been seeing more and more peace church influences joining this movement (my wife and I are both from an Anabaptist upnringing). The integration of the Social Prophetic and Deliverence Ministry is very much what we have been apart of over the past 4 years as students of nonviolence and liberation theology decide to do life with and serve along side people with more charismatic backgrounds. I’m learning more and more how much we actually need each other…thanks for sharing this conversation, it spoke so much to my families current community, commitments and struggles…

    GRACE+PEACE,

    PS – next year we are organizing a 3 week seminar series at our YWAM Kona, HI campus where we hope to engage a lot of this conversation as well as promote works of justice and peacemaking within our “missions” context. We have Ched Myers and Elaine Enns joining us…I’ll share more later, but perhaps some of you would like to come to the Pacific!

  • WesHB

    A beautiful, sunny PacNW Sunday afternoon, a walk with my dog, and a lovely conversation with Bob, Mark and Jarrod. Thanks for the gift, friends!

    The pair of shows with Bob Ekblad raised so many wonderful and key questions that many of us don’t or at least don’t like to talk about. Bob’s a truly ecumenical guy, with his connections with living faith communities in so many places and cultures, and a spirituality/theology that finds Good News in so many often warring Christian traditions. You guys asked some questions that made it a lot more real, because they were questions at the heart of your own yearnings to follow Jesus all the way. As Bob said, the Spirit confirmed it in the hearing, as my own heart was sparked by the exchange.

    The final story Bob told really brought it home. If we don’t seek for ourselves and our communities authentic experiences of God, then this all so quickly devolves into ideology. The truly mystical and prophetic are not different things at all, are they? To hear Jesus’ Word of the cross and resurrection, we have to go up the mountain of Transfiguration and hear God’s Voice saying, “This IS my Beloved Son! LISTEN to him!”

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