BRIAN JONES: THE DROWNING by David Comfort   Nearly 50 years ago, Brian Jones drowned in his swimming pool. Authorities called it “death by misadventure.” In 2009 the Sussex police reopened the investigation after eyewitnesses reported that the founder of the Rolling Stones had in fact been drowned by his live-in carpenter, Frank Thorogood. But, […]

  Once upon a time, God created the universe in five days that took 14.5 billion years. On the sixth day, after He'd finished flying and creeping things, He said, "Let us create man in our image and likeness" (Genesis 1:26). Who God was talking to and what He meant by "us," nobody knew for sure. […]

  Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Envy, Pride. Most religions agree with Christians that these are the Seven Deadly Sins. Most also agree that the deadliest of the Seven is Pride or, as the Greeks called it, hubris, since it feeds most others. Hence, “To master the pride of defiant selfhood,” preached Buddha, “that in […]