Clearly, Lord Vader has been busy. See Vader Chokes Officer — I find your lack of faith disturbing for details.

Census reveals more people identify as Jedi Knights than atheists

The number of Jedi Knights appears to have nearly halved in the last decade, but still beats the amount of people who positively identify as atheists in England and Wales, according to results of the … 

This is one of the most marvelous examples of people responding to incentives that I can think of. Surprising and yet obvious in retrospect.

Snitching markets in everything

The prisoners in Atlanta’s hulking downtown jail had a problem. They wanted to snitch for federal agents, but they didn’t know anything worth telling. Fellow prisoner Marcus Watkins, a… 

The good news: hate crimes were down by 6%. The interesting news: “The majority of those incidents—46.9 percent—were racially motivated, followed by 20.8 percent motivated by sexual orientation and 19.8 percent motivated by religion. Incidents of religious bias had previously outnumbered incidents of sexual-orientation bias since at least 1995…”  Things that surprised me: how few hate crimes there are overall, how much greater anti-Jewish animus is than anti-any other religion, and how much more prevalent racial hostility is than any other category.

For the First Time, Hate Crimes Against Gays Outnumber Those Against Religion: Religious bias had outnumbered sexual-orientation bias since at least 1995.

At Christianity Today, we’re constantly tracking important developments in the church and the world. Often we use our network of reporters around the world (and for that, visit our main site). But we … 

I must confess that the truth behind the first myth was a surprise to me, and I consider myself very well informed on these issues. 

5 Myths about Jubilee

Found in Leviticus 25, the biblical practice of Jubilee is becoming ever more prominent in discussions about justice, poverty, and debt relief. Many evangelical authors mention Jubilee as a biblical example of debt forgiveness and redistribution of land. It has also gained popular attention in the news media.

Jubilee has been offered by several sources as a solution to our current economic crisis. At Forbes, Erik Kain asked, “Could a debt jubile…