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To prevent sexual harm we have to actually believe that normal people commit it

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I have lots of thoughts here but probably the most pertinent is to say that the way we treat abusers as monsters (through registries, hyper-punishment etc) and the way we let powerful men off the hook are two sides of the same problem

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(We can still provide alternate spaces for meaningful accountability and human flourishing even for perpetrators of great harm but those do not have to come with institutional power)

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I do not always agree with the distinction between punishment and consequences, but this essay is great and absolutely correct that depriving people of institutional power is 1) often necessary and 2) not punishment.

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What is that tartan? It’s beautiful!

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We have to talk about policing:

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 27/09/2026

This makes me so sad for what might have been for you (but… I also want to affirm that I am glad you are who you are, if that makes sense?) (PS I’m sorry if this is weird when I don’t know you well!)

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These days I am usually driving with my kids though which means the music is 90% Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 27/09/2026

I listen to the radio! I listen to Top 40 and the “80s, 90s, and today” station. I have never heard this song (maybe surprisingly); I think it hasn’t crossed over off the country stations in California. (I don’t listen to much country or CCM anymore although I have in the past.)

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 27/09/2026

I’m all for RJ and TJ diversion programs, but “write an essay” isn’t a restorative justice process and “ignore the frat house problem” isn’t transformative justice. Just evading accountability.

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 26/09/2026

Church. Pizza night. Folk dance groups! Community festivals! All the things.

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 26/09/2026

This is actually the point of Torture and Eucharist: authoritarian states want to destroy all social bodies except the individual and the state, and so recreating social bodies (including the church as a social body) is essential.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

THIS IS HAPPENING! FREE! AMAZING! AHHHHHHHHH!

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I donated to this today! (My dad grew up in Tuscaloosa so West Alabama has a special place in my heart)

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Strip mall food culture is my favorite thing

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(lol i am bad at newsletters)

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Hi! I would be interested in reviewing the T&T Clark Handbook of Disability and Christian Theology. Should I email you?

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I tend to share your skepticism (there’s a chapter in my forthcoming book about why I’m skeptical of the usefulness of orthodoxy as a category)

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Abolition Ecclesiology: A Spatial Theology for a Church Against Prisons

I am very grateful to @theradr.bsky.social for mentioning my book here!!! ❤️❤️❤️ (P.S. -- if you are interested in it, you can pre-order it at a 30% discount direct from the publisher with code BOWMAN30: www.fortresspress.com/store/produc...)

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In Abolition Ecclesiology, Hannah Bowman offers a spatial analysis of theological beliefs that contribute to society's enormous reliance on incarceration and punishment. The book presents an alternati...

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Atkinson @maddavenport.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’m so, SO excited for this book. Hannah’s theology in conversation is both sharp and grounded, in the way that develops when someone’s ideas about God flow out of, and into, their whole experience.

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lol this is a theological problem! I hear this allllllll the time in the church and it makes me twitch every time

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I’m gonna say no simply based on my understanding of Mass geography and culture from when I lived in Western Mass 🤣

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