Early in his career, Mark Twain took a job as a newspaper reporter. He was instructed by his editor never to state anything as a fact that he could not verify from personal knowledge. His first assignment was to cover an important social event. After the event, he turned in the following story:
A woman, representing her name to be Mrs. James Jones, is reported to be one of the city’s leading society figures. It is said that today she gave what purported to be a party for a number of alleged ladies. The hostess claims to be the wife of a man reputed to be a local physician.
On the evening of the first Easter the disciples were holed up in a locked room, frightened of the Jewish authorities, paralyzed by grief, and utterly perplexed by Mary Magdalene’s wild tale that their Crucified Friend had somehow come back to life. No one in that room was prepared for what happened next. In…
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