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28638
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English
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How My Mission Saved My Membership
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Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Fall 2003
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36
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no.3
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133-140
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IN 1991 I ALMOST JOINED THE PEACE CORPS. I graduated from college that year with the coveted Peace Corps job offer just as I had hoped for years. The glitch in my plan, however, was that at the same time I was blind-sided by a dramatic re-conversion to Mormonism. It was an unexpected turn after having majored in a very leftist field (Peace and Conflict Studies) at an arguably leftist school (U.C. Berkeley), in which I was exposed to some very compelling criticisms of hierarchical and patriarchal systems. But I had Mormon roots, and they can run surprisingly deep.