Hannah Bowman

For real now: YOU CAN PRE-ORDER MY BOOK!!! www.fortresspress.com/store/produc...

Abolition Ecclesiology Countdown Day 14: This book is largely about sacraments. Partly that’s because I love sacraments. But it’s also because they are spatial practices by which the church enacts divinity within concrete places and spaces. Sacraments restructure space.

Very proud of this one

Countdown Day 15: If Christian spatial thought can reinforce carcerality, it can also overcome it. Changing our spatial practices can change the culture.

Announcing the winners of the 6th Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize: Harlow Scott, "Cancer in Prison: A Death Sentence?” Jazzy Mason, “For Child Abuse Survivors Like Me, Prison Reactivates Familiar Trauma” Grateful for these essays & the legacy of my beloved sister.💗 truthout.org/articles/ann...

Countdown Day 17: Where is space in Christian theology? Lots of places: “body of Christ,” descending/ascending, and more. But I focus on three binaries in Christian spatial thinking: Inside vs. Outside, Above vs. Below, Here vs. Hereafter.

Countdown Day 18! Why space? We are spatial creatures; prisons are spatial phenomena. The way space is organized can make people separate or connect, can alienate us from ourselves and one another. And space is all over our theology too.

Looking forward to this one!

A reminder during Prison Banned Books Week: Prisons & jails are the largest censors in the U.S. They say it's for "security," but the most banned book is a cookbook. 🤨 Book bans are designed to isolate and control incarcerated people — not keep them safe.

Once more for the afternoon crowd:

Abolition Ecclesiology Countdown Day 19: What’s the guiding idea of this book? My perspective is using SPACE as the orienting concept for talking about theology and abolition. This isn’t new in abolitionist thought obviously, but I believe it’s a fresh method applied to the abolition theology world

I started just called ICE/ CBP "immigration police" because they are just police. That's what they do, policing.

This thread is excellent

<to self: this is the best joke I’ve made in months. more people should see it>

Wilson Hall is a true treasure (I kinda grew up at Fermilab, and sadly it's no longer open to the public, which is a real loss, because the whole site was a retrofuturistic architectural dream)

Abolition Ecclesiology Countdown Day 20: What is this book? Fundamentally, it’s a work of theology; a love letter to God and church and sacraments that sees the church as a real space where revolutionary transformation can be enacted.

it is really withering to go from the murder of George Floyd + the uprisings of '20 to the apathy toward Kohen Wiley's murder in '26 - I guess that is the point of white supremacy, to wither our values and what u know is right, what u are willing to fight for, wither it into dust

Um

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OK so I counted and it's only ***22 days*** until my book is out. (AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH) Official 20-day countdown of cool stuff from the book coming Wednesday. But for now: HEY DID YOU KNOW I WROTE A BOOK AND YOU CAN PRE-ORDER IT?

Danced some hula today

I finally made something with the radish fabric!!!

Here’s another piece about the Civility Industrial Complex (a great new term I just learned); the church falls into this A LOT also!!!

This conversation is so, so good. (Also I can’t wait to read Marina Sitrin’s book!)

I continue to be having too much fun with Dressmaker (like everyone else)