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I was on Facebook earlier this week and came across a friend with whom I have all but lost touch. We met in college at UCA freshman orientation. Then she transferred to another school, and I didn't see her again till we were both married and ended up in a couples' Sunday School class together at a big Southern Baptist Church. For about a year we gathered with other young couples for Bible study.

I remember the feelings of youthful naivete and excitement. We were all newlyweds finishing up varying degrees of college and graduate school, and there was this sense of being on the cusp of our lives. The future seemed so bright. Full of purpose. We knew God had big plans for us. We had prepared ourselves spiritually and intellectually, and had tried to "do things right." We followed the formula we believed in--for my friend and me at least, gleaned from an evangelical background, then--honed in college, where we were involved in a campus ministry called Student Mobilization.

Student Mobilization, best I can tell, is a knockoff of Campus Crusade for Christ. I know the founder and do not........

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