Thinking through Online Eucharist with Hannah Bowman

We encourage you to visit our designated web page, where you will find links to an array of resources on this topic, as well as information as to how you can join us for our online eucharist.

In this podcast we invite you to listen in on a conversation between Hannah Bowman, Rachel Twigg, and Jamie Howison, exploring the theology and practice of online eucharistic celebrations.

Hannah Bowman is a graduate student in theology, literary agent, prison abolitionist, and restorative justice practitioner. She is a regular contributor to "Covenant," the weblog ofThe Living Church magazine.

Hannah Bowman

The founder and director of Christians for Abolition, Hannah writes and teaches on the Christian theology supporting prison abolition. She has developed extensive educational materials on the Christians for Abolition website, written for The Living Church, Episcopal Café, and The Hour about prison abolition and theology, and been interviewed in Sojourners. She has taught guest classes at the Institute for Christian Studies, participated in programming run by the Institute for Christian Socialism, and appeared on various podcasts including The Magnificast, Theology and Socialism, Messy Jesus Business, and The Living Church podcast. Her Living Church article, Virtual Communion and the Call to Discern the Body, will be of particular interest to podcast listeners.

Hannah is also the circle coordinator for the LA pilot Circles of Support and Accountability (COSA) program, in collaboration with the Fresno Community Justice Center. COSA is a restorative-justice re-entry model in which a circle of 3–5 volunteers meets weekly with an individual returning from prison or civil commitment; COSA LA intentionally serves people who have been incarcerated for doing serious violent sexual harm. Hannah is also a lay chaplain in the LA County Jails with Prism Restorative Justice.