Matthew Bowman
Matthew Bowman is an author at Religion News Service.
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How the Mormon church’s past shapes its position on immigration today
By Matthew Bowman — July 26, 2018
(The Conversation) — Each July on Pioneer Day, Utahans revisit the story of the Mormon settlement of the Salt Lake Valley, an event that still has profound implications for how the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints thinks about issues from immigration to the Bears Ears National Monument.
Rape Victim Denied Morning-after Pill
By Matthew Bowman — July 27, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service LEBANON, Pa. _ A hospital emergency room doctor in central Pennsylvania refused to give a rape victim a morning-after pill because it would be against his Mennonite religious beliefs. Rebuffed by the doctor at Lebanon County’s Good Samaritan Hospital on Saturday (July 22), the woman called her gynecologist, who wrote […]
NEWS STORY: Methodist pastor suspended from ministry for same-sex ceremony
By Matthew Bowman — March 30, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. _ The Rev. Gregory Dell, the Chicago pastor suspended from ministry late Friday (March 26) by a United Methodist Church court for performing a same-sex wedding ceremony says the decision was a victory of legalism over compassion. “Part of the church made a statement, but it’s not […]
NEWS STORY: Minister in same-sex union trial accused of shirking duty
By Matthew Bowman — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. _ Sounding every bit a prosecutor while claiming not to be one, the Rev. Stephen C. Williams tore into fellow United Methodist minister Gregory Dell Thursday (March 25) in his opening statement at Dell’s church trial for presiding at a same-sex union ceremony. The trial was expected […]
NEWS FEATURE: Methodist same-sex union trial set to begin
By Matthew Bowman — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service CHICAGO _ The church trial of the Rev. Gregory Dell, set to begin next week in a suburb near here, won’t be the trial of the century. But it will be the trial of his life and his 30 years in the ministry as 13 of his pastoral colleagues determine […]
NEWS STORY: United Methodist minister found guilty in same-sex ceremony trial
By Matthew Bowman — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. _ The Rev. Gregory Dell Friday (March 26) was found guilty of violating United Methodist Church law when he presided at a same-sex “holy union” ceremony at his Chicago church last September. By a vote of 10 to 3, the jury of clergy members from the denomination’s […]
NEWS STORY: United Methodist minister found guilty in same-sex ceremony trial
By Matthew Bowman — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. _ The Rev. Gregory Dell Friday (March 26) was found guilty of violating United Methodist Church law when he presided at a same-sex “holy union” ceremony at his Chicago church last September. By a vote of 10 to 3, the jury of clergy members from the denomination’s […]
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