Hannah Bowman
@hannahnpbowman.com
Literary agent @ Liza Dawson Associates, prison abolitionist, public theologian
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christiansforabolition.org
Abolition Ecclesiology: A Spatial Theology for a Church Against Prisons (Fortress, forthcoming in 2026)
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christiansforabolition.org
Abolition Ecclesiology: A Spatial Theology for a Church Against Prisons (Fortress, forthcoming in 2026)
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Seriously, it is a small luxury but if you have $10 and like charming apps, it’s hard to beat the joy that this Advent calendar brings:
For sheer entertainment-for-value however you cannot beat this app: www.jacquielawson.com/advent/chris...
We buy it every year (it’s slightly different each year) and literally play the iPad games all year
We buy it every year (it’s slightly different each year) and literally play the iPad games all year
2025 Christmas Village Advent Calendar | Jacquie Lawson
www.jacquielawson.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Seriously, it is a small luxury but if you have $10 and like charming apps, it’s hard to beat the joy that this Advent calendar brings:
It’s all just so shockingly evil
The Trump administration State Department is taking money that's supposed to be used for helping vulnerable refugees around the world and using it to bribe corrupt governments into taking people that ICE can't deport to their home countries.
November 11, 2025 at 1:12 AM
It’s all just so shockingly evil
I will be honest, I am fully on team “the food that you eat is a good food” (sure, maybe aim for things with less salt/sugar/fat and more fiber, but only — and this is key — if it does not get in the way of you eating and enjoying food)
“This thing is definitely bad for us but no one can say what it is”
The evidence that ultra-processed foods are bad for us is piling up. But efforts to reduce their role in our diets face a big hurdle: experts can't agree on what they are and which to target. n.pr/4qMrN7P
November 10, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I will be honest, I am fully on team “the food that you eat is a good food” (sure, maybe aim for things with less salt/sugar/fat and more fiber, but only — and this is key — if it does not get in the way of you eating and enjoying food)
Serious question: is this a violation of California anti-discrimination law, and if so, can California sue to enforce its laws for the Los Angeles games?
Olympics organisers moving towards blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport
Olympics organisers moving towards blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport
The International Olympic Committee is moving towards a blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport, Sky News understands.
news.sky.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Serious question: is this a violation of California anti-discrimination law, and if so, can California sue to enforce its laws for the Los Angeles games?
PREACH
if "the gospel is political but not partisan" becomes shorthand for "don't you dare imply that God has ever taken a side or categorically condemned anything that was popular," we are not talking about the gospel of jesus christ at all anymore
November 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
PREACH
Finally figured out my Mamdani sign. I know, I know, I’m behind the times
November 10, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Finally figured out my Mamdani sign. I know, I know, I’m behind the times
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UPDATE: Reached out to the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister who was there that day and has been active in religious demonstrations at Broadview.
“They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”
“They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”
November 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM
UPDATE: Reached out to the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister who was there that day and has been active in religious demonstrations at Broadview.
“They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”
“They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”
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@ churches
If you’re scared to look politically motivated, **you are politically motivated**
November 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
@ churches
This is absolutely it. This is part of what chaplains DO
they can't let the priests in because then they will come back out and say what they saw
Access to the sacraments is the tip of the iceberg. They won't allow clergy access bc they aren't running a proper detention facility. The scandal that religious protests are highlighting is not that the detainees' religious rights are being violated, but that ALL their rights are being violated.
November 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM
This is absolutely it. This is part of what chaplains DO
What effect will this have on Cornell’s trans students? What effect will this have on their ability to teach courses about gender theory, like the ones that taught me so much? What effect will this have on Palestinian students, on faculty with controversial research, on contingent faculty?
This is a betrayal of the principles I loved about Cornell:
BREAKING: Cornell caved.
Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...
Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...
November 7, 2025 at 6:23 PM
What effect will this have on Cornell’s trans students? What effect will this have on their ability to teach courses about gender theory, like the ones that taught me so much? What effect will this have on Palestinian students, on faculty with controversial research, on contingent faculty?
This is a betrayal of the principles I loved about Cornell:
BREAKING: Cornell caved.
Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...
Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...
November 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM
This is a betrayal of the principles I loved about Cornell:
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Because it's a good day, a thread of images from fantastic show I saw last week: African-American artist Allan Rohan Crite at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. First up, Crite's luminous "Streetcar Madonna," which resonates with incoming NYC mayor's pledge to make transit more affordable
November 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Because it's a good day, a thread of images from fantastic show I saw last week: African-American artist Allan Rohan Crite at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. First up, Crite's luminous "Streetcar Madonna," which resonates with incoming NYC mayor's pledge to make transit more affordable
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This is the feast of Leonard of Noblac, patron saint of prisoners, who died in 559 but became a really popular saint in the 12th c., following Bohemond's invocation of him when imprisoned and a new Vita written following that event. Here's Leonard freeing prisoners in BNF lat 5134.
November 6, 2025 at 2:49 PM
This is the feast of Leonard of Noblac, patron saint of prisoners, who died in 559 but became a really popular saint in the 12th c., following Bohemond's invocation of him when imprisoned and a new Vita written following that event. Here's Leonard freeing prisoners in BNF lat 5134.
Just shouting “Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!” to every word of this @schlesingene.bsky.social piece: eugenerschlesinger.substack.com/p/the-only-a...
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The Only Antidote to Polarization Is Confrontation
There Is No Middle-Ground With Fascism
eugenerschlesinger.substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Just shouting “Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!” to every word of this @schlesingene.bsky.social piece: eugenerschlesinger.substack.com/p/the-only-a...
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So uh.
I've spent the last five years working on a book about grief, mourning, who is allowed to grieve and how, and where we go from here, and...
you can now preorder it!
I've spent the last five years working on a book about grief, mourning, who is allowed to grieve and how, and where we go from here, and...
you can now preorder it!
All My Dead Cats and Other Losses: Practicing Good Grief in a Culture That Fears Mourning
Practicing Good Grief in a Culture That Fears Mourning
bookshop.org
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
So uh.
I've spent the last five years working on a book about grief, mourning, who is allowed to grieve and how, and where we go from here, and...
you can now preorder it!
I've spent the last five years working on a book about grief, mourning, who is allowed to grieve and how, and where we go from here, and...
you can now preorder it!
I just learned this went live: a toolkit on building solidarity from the Episcopal Church Foundation’s Vital Practices series: www.ecfvp.org/toolkits/sol...
Tools to build with, going forward. ⚓️
Tools to build with, going forward. ⚓️
Episcopal Church Foundation Vital Practices
Episcopal Church Foundation Vital Practices
www.ecfvp.org
November 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I just learned this went live: a toolkit on building solidarity from the Episcopal Church Foundation’s Vital Practices series: www.ecfvp.org/toolkits/sol...
Tools to build with, going forward. ⚓️
Tools to build with, going forward. ⚓️
Anyway I think this is because the 2015 Hamilton phenomenon had end of history vibes but now from in the midst of struggle you can see the agony and the tragedy of it more clearly. See the play for what it is, not just the phenomenon
I listened to Hamilton a couple of weeks ago and tbh it hits harder and differently in 2025 than in 2015
"Raise a glass to freedom
Something they can never take away
No matter what they tell you
Raise a glass to the four of us
Tomorrow, there'll be more of us
Telling the story of tonight!"
(I had to! 😆)
Something they can never take away
No matter what they tell you
Raise a glass to the four of us
Tomorrow, there'll be more of us
Telling the story of tonight!"
(I had to! 😆)
November 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Anyway I think this is because the 2015 Hamilton phenomenon had end of history vibes but now from in the midst of struggle you can see the agony and the tragedy of it more clearly. See the play for what it is, not just the phenomenon
Horrifying. Yesterday in LA agents grabbed a father out of a car and drove off with his toddler in the backseat. (She is home.) Unbearable evil being done to children.
this morning, ICE went into a Spanish language immersion daycare and took a teacher from the building in front of screaming and crying kids and parents at dropoff and the daycare had to shut down for the day (near Lane Tech, where they were yesterday). Really hoping today's "theme" is not "daycare."
November 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Horrifying. Yesterday in LA agents grabbed a father out of a car and drove off with his toddler in the backseat. (She is home.) Unbearable evil being done to children.
I listened to Hamilton a couple of weeks ago and tbh it hits harder and differently in 2025 than in 2015
"Raise a glass to freedom
Something they can never take away
No matter what they tell you
Raise a glass to the four of us
Tomorrow, there'll be more of us
Telling the story of tonight!"
(I had to! 😆)
Something they can never take away
No matter what they tell you
Raise a glass to the four of us
Tomorrow, there'll be more of us
Telling the story of tonight!"
(I had to! 😆)
Libbing out so hard I might listen to the entire Hamilton soundtrack
November 5, 2025 at 5:51 AM
I listened to Hamilton a couple of weeks ago and tbh it hits harder and differently in 2025 than in 2015
This is more or less what I think except I would prefer to see the “wait” to enter mostly just be “you fill out a form and then you enter legally/officially.” You can have an orderly process without trying to keep people out. The only reason to keep people out is white supremacy.
i do think Dems should moderate on immigration in the sense that Dems should redesign our immigration policy to work like people think it works: you wait for a while (but not forever) to get into the country and then you wait for a while (but not forever) to become a citizen.
November 4, 2025 at 8:36 PM
This is more or less what I think except I would prefer to see the “wait” to enter mostly just be “you fill out a form and then you enter legally/officially.” You can have an orderly process without trying to keep people out. The only reason to keep people out is white supremacy.
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New from me: The police are defunding our cities. In LA, LAPD’s growing liability lawsuits are costing taxpayers millions of dollars in payouts. $400m in payouts since 2019. The biggest culprits: protests, police shootings, and car collisions. More👇
lapublicpress.org/2025/11/lapd...
lapublicpress.org/2025/11/lapd...
Inside LAPD's nearly $400M settlement crisis that's bankrupting LA
Taxpayers are covering civil rights violations and officer misconduct while basic city services face cuts—and a new audit could reveal whether LAPD is doing anything to stop the pattern.
lapublicpress.org
November 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
New from me: The police are defunding our cities. In LA, LAPD’s growing liability lawsuits are costing taxpayers millions of dollars in payouts. $400m in payouts since 2019. The biggest culprits: protests, police shootings, and car collisions. More👇
lapublicpress.org/2025/11/lapd...
lapublicpress.org/2025/11/lapd...
We have engaged in the traditional All Saints/Daylight Savings hanging of the Christmas lights.
November 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM
We have engaged in the traditional All Saints/Daylight Savings hanging of the Christmas lights.
Pray for the saints in captivity. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
The Body of Christ couldn’t be taken in to them — a travesty and a great shame — but the Body of Christ is already present among those behind bars. 💔💔💔⚓️
The Body of Christ couldn’t be taken in to them — a travesty and a great shame — but the Body of Christ is already present among those behind bars. 💔💔💔⚓️
Organizers said they followed Department of Homeland Security protocol and formally requested access more than one week ahead of the Mass. The request was denied, according to a statement from the village of Broadview. No reason was given.
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trib.al/C6InDHk
Religious leaders' request to give Communion to detainees at Broadview facility is denied again
Organizers said they followed Department of Homeland Security protocol and formally requested access more than one week ahead of the Mass. The request was denied, according to a statement from the village of Broadview. No reason was given.
trib.al
November 1, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Pray for the saints in captivity. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
The Body of Christ couldn’t be taken in to them — a travesty and a great shame — but the Body of Christ is already present among those behind bars. 💔💔💔⚓️
The Body of Christ couldn’t be taken in to them — a travesty and a great shame — but the Body of Christ is already present among those behind bars. 💔💔💔⚓️
I am spending Halloween reading Meghan Hennings’ excellent book about Hell, lol
October 31, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I am spending Halloween reading Meghan Hennings’ excellent book about Hell, lol
My Halloween costume is “math.” With bonus Klein bottle earrings from @thalesdisciple.bsky.social!
October 31, 2025 at 4:30 PM
My Halloween costume is “math.” With bonus Klein bottle earrings from @thalesdisciple.bsky.social!