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Excerpted from The Accidental Terrorist: Confessions of a Reluctant Missionary by William Shunn, available now! My mission began around the time the prophet Ezra Taft Benson forcefully reaffirmed Joseph Smith’s declaration that the Book of...

Excerpted from The Accidental Terrorist: Confessions of a Reluctant Missionary by William Shunn, available now! Elder Fowler tossed a golf ball lightly in the air as I trailed him up the shady walk. He bobbled the...

Excerpted from The Accidental Terrorist: Confessions of a Reluctant Missionary by William Shunn, available now! Two years earlier, my father and I were driving back roads somewhere east of Victorville in the California desert when he...

Excerpted from The Accidental Terrorist: Confessions of a Reluctant Missionary by William Shunn, available now! At the tap on my shoulder I jerked my head. “Elder Shunn, you’re up,” whispered Elder Rosenberg. Time for my...

Excerpted from The Accidental Terrorist: Confessions of a Reluctant Missionary by William Shunn, available now! 23 February 1987 The detective unlocks my tiny room and drags a plastic chair in from the hallway. “Mister Shunn,” she...