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| | CNS: February 22, 2002: A token sermon: Manhattan Mormon missionaries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | Riding the subways on the West Side of Manhattan, the missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in this decidedly un-Mormon city preach their gospel, New York City Transit rules be damned. |
 | | For Mormon men, the two-year mission is a rite of passage, one that an estimated half of active Latter-day Saints accept on their 19th birthday, according to Jan Shipps, author of "Sojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years Among the Mormons" (University of Illinois Press, 2000) and the leading non-Mormon scholar of the church. |
 | | Sean Williams, a 31-year-old actor who was raised by a Mormon mother but was never baptized in the church, scheduled an afternoon appointment with the missionaries. |
| www.jrn.columbia.edu /studentwork/cns/2002-02-22/181.asp (938 words) |
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