The complete online text of Christian Science by Mark Twain.

An author and platform entertainer who became tremendously popular in his own day, Samuel Clemens participated in the major literary movements of the century and knew virtually every one of his distinguished contemporaries. Biographers have emphasized th...

Mark Twain's work captures the child that lives in the American psyche and also presents the confusions of the American adult. As a mature writer, Twain could recreate the small-town boyhood he had known by the Mississippi River in those halcyon years be...

In the early spring of 1835 John Marshall Clemens and his wife, Jane, loaded up their possessions, their five children, and their single slave in Three Forks, Tennessee, to move to Missouri. It was another in a long series of migrations which the family...

St. Joseph native Dr. Jeffery Zweerink grew up with strong Christian beliefs. But as an undergraduate student studying physics in college, Dr. Zweerink began to see there were conflicts between his religious beliefs and his scientific studies. His search for answers to resolve those...

Siding with an antiabortion doctor, the FDA rejects easy access to a morning-after pill. In late 2002, women's groups sounded an alarm over the appointment of Dr. W. David Hager and two other physicians-all opponents of abortion-to the FDA's Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory...