Read an April 14, 2009, story at CNN.com about studies warning that rapid-fire news and constant updating via social networking tools such as Twitter “could numb our sense of morality and make us indifferent to human suffering.”

House2House is a webzine about the house church/simple church movement.

The Early Church maintains a state-by-state list of house churches.

David Greenberg is an associate professor of history, journalism and media studies at Rutgers University in New Jersey.

Read an Oct 10, 2009, Houston Chronicle article about pastors encouraging their congregations to tweet during sermons.

Read a January 2010 column on tweeting at SpiritualityandPractice.com, titled “25 Reasons Why Twitter Is Spiritual.”

Read a column by Henry G. Brinton, pastor of Fairfax Presbyterian Church in Virginia, about social networking’s effect on religion. The column appeared June 20, 2010, in USA Today.

Ronald Pagnucco is an associate professor of peace studies at College of St. Benedict/St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minn. His research interests include the connection between religion, politics and peace.

Church Multiplication Associates is a nondenominational organization that promotes the “voluntary association of a multiplicity of expanding networks” They held their first Organic Church Movement Conference in Long Beach, Calif., in January 2007.