Hannah Bowman

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Literary agent @ Liza Dawson Associates, prison abolitionist, public theologian hannahnpbowman.com christiansforabolition.org Abolition Ecclesiology, Nov 2026: https://www.fortresspress.com/store/product/9798889838357/Abolition-Ecclesiology She/her

Me wearing a red sweater. It clashes with my shirt and skirt
A red handknit sweater
Me in red sweater with no sleeves
Me wearing a blue sweater
A purple and red quilt hanging on a concrete gallery wall
Full text at https://episcopal-migration-caucus.ghost.io/content/files/2026/04/What-Comes-Next-March-2026-Formatted--1-.pdf
Full text at https://episcopal-migration-caucus.ghost.io/content/files/2026/04/What-Comes-Next-March-2026-Formatted--1-.pdf
Woodcut of Jesus rescuing people from hell depicted as barbed wire and cross beams that say ICE Detention
A woodcut icon of Jesus, pulling prisoners out through a hole in barbed wire fence. He is standing on crossed gates of hell that read ICE detention
Seared scallops over a gratin of cauliflower and mushrooms in a cast iron skillet, with a parsley garnish
Book cover. Three triangles in corners have grass, a road, and a cityscape. Text on black background says: Abolition Ecclesiology: A Spatial Theology for a Church Against Prisons, Hannah Bowman
Big decorative stuffed pie from the top
A slice of a layered pastry full of salmon and eggs
A picture of a 3D rendering of a townhouse with four apartments
An Advent wreath from above with one candle lit. It has berries and orange flowers and blue glitter on it
An Advent wreath with three purple candles, one pink candle, and a candle with numbers 1-24 on it in the middle, on a table with boxes on it
Plate with Thanksgiving foods on it (described in post)
Mamdani sign that says Votes for Women
Woman with big glasses in a dress with mathematical symbols on it, with little glass earrings in the shape of Klein bottles
A laptop with several books behind it including PRISON BY ANY OTHER NAME by Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law and ABOLITION GEOGRAPHY by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Picture of a weather forecast showing temps in the 80s
The yoke of a red cardigan on knitting needles
An orange striped knitted hat
A selfie of a woman in a red striped sweater
A mirror selfie of a woman wearing a red sweater vest. The middle of the sweater is noticeably rounder than the chest.
Mirror selfie of a woman with a knitted round yoke of a sweater over her shoulders (the sweater stops abruptly 8 inches below the neckline all around)
A concrete hallway with two doorways to concrete rooms in the new gallery building at LACMA
A pan of chicken curry with cilantro on top
Button scarf in a blue green and brown yarn with two cables on it
Kimbap on a plate
A swatch of knitting with two cables running up the front
Pizza with onions, tomatoes and corn, mushrooms, and prosciutto, uncooked
A gray-blue cardigan lying on a couch
A blue gray cardigan sweater with no sleeves on a woman whose head is not in the frame
Icon of Philip and Daniel Berrigan. Philip holds a sign saying “the poor tell us who we are, prophets tell us who we should be, so we hide the poor and kill the prophets” and Daniel holds a sign saying “our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children”
Things churches can do to become communities of solidarity 1. Find an ongoing relational action you can take as a community (not with an outreach partner but work if the parish), which you encourage all your members to take part in and which uses your property during times it's empty 2. If your work is mostly through outreach partners, begin actively recruiting people in the church to join those efforts, personally and in an ongoing way, and build a circle/support group within your parish for ongoing relationship-building among the volunteers you are bringing to your partner organizations from your parish, so that it's not individuals working but a ministry clearly rooted in the community. Pray for these ministries and every member involved in them by name at Sunday worship
A white door in a yellow wall with 20+K+M+B+25 written above the door in purple chalk
A brightly-colored Advent wreath with four candles and a silver one in the center all lit.
Meryl Streep in Mamma Mia making the sign of the cross
Caesar roasted potatoes in a white dish in front of a lit Advent wreath
Plate with gravlax, lentil salad, potato salad, celery salad, eggplant, beets, herring, and smoked mussels
A hand with three purple and one pink painted nails in front of an Advent wreath with three purple candles and one pink candles
Pie with a lattice crust
Thanksgiving plate of food with turkey, mashed potatoes, green beans, brussels sprouts, Waldorf salad, gravy, and habanero salsa
A pie with a lattice top
A Lego train with Christmas designs on it, including Princess Zelda and a penguin and a Christmas tree
Seder plate on a toddler plate with carrot, broccoli, horseradish, egg, orange, salt water, and applesauce.
Ahmed, Sara. Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. New York: New Press, 2010. Althaus-Reid, Marcella. Indecent Theology: Theological Perversions in Sex, Gender, and Politics. London: Routledge, 2000. Anselm. Cur Deus Homo. In St. Anselm: Basic Writings, translated by S.N. Deane. La Salle, IL: Open Court Publishing Company, 1962. 191–302. Anzaldúa, Gloria. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1987. Augustine of Hippo. The City of God. Accessed 22 February 2024. https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1201.htm. Bergmann, Sigurd. “Theology in its Spatial Turn: Space, Place and Built Environments Challenging and Changing the Images of God.” Religion Compass 1 no. 3 (2007): 353–379, doi: 10.1111/j.1749-8171.2007.00025.x. Bhabha, Homi. The Location of Culture. London: Routledge, 1994.
Picture of an iPhone Lock Screen. The photo on it is a statue of the Virgin Mary holding baby Jesus, over a small altar under a stone arch, from the cathedral in Embrun, France.
Thank you for your feedback here. We had not done an alert on this bill until now, though we were tracking it, in part because of these concerns. When Congress modified the text after input from prominent LGBTQ rights organizations, and the subsequent shift toward supporting the bill, we concluded it was right to move forward expressing support. We included a link in the alert text (that link was mistakenly broken until a moment ago when I fixed it) talking about this shift which includes GLAAD, GLSEN, Human Rights Campaign, PFLAG National, National Center for Lesbian Rights, National Center for Transgender Equality and the Trevor Project. It’s also supported by the National Education Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Foundation on Suicide Prevention and the American Psychological Association. “LGBTQ groups drop opposition to Kids Online Safety Act” https://www.washingtonblade.com/2024/02/15/lgbtq-groups-drop-opposition-to-kids-online-safety-act/ …