SAN DIEGO — In June of 2013, Deacon Bobby Ehnow found himself shackled to Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Deacon Ehnow, then a retired lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps and still about 12 years away from being ordained to the diaconate, had been convicted of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and for bribery. The notorious terrorist was his seatmate on the U.S. Marshals Service’s airline, nicknamed “Con Air,” en route to federal prison in Florence, Colorado.
Deacon Ehnow said that, after “a little bit of bravado back and forth,” the odd couple actually opened up to one another during their seven-hour journey.
“We had a fruitful conversation about faith, of all things,” said Deacon Ehnow, who uses the story of that flight as the opening scene in his new book, “All Things New: A Journey from Brokenness to Restoration,” which was published April 15 through New City Press.
Deacon Ehnow spent 27 and a half months in prison and, in May of 2015, was released to another four months of home confinement. From September 2015 to May 2018, he earned a doctorate in Leadership Studies and Nonprofit Management from the University of San
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