The Rebuilders is a resource ministry for planting first-century-style worship in home churches. It is run by Milt Rodriguez and is based in Cedaredge, Colo.

This story, published on May 14, 2013, in the New York Times, explains how Vermont became the first state to pass a legislative measure allowing physicians to administer lethal drugs to terminally ill patients in May 2013.

House Church Network Association is a Web site that supports the planting of house churches in North America.

In his message for the Catholic Church’s World Communications Day of 2009, Pope Benedict XVI also cautioned that if “virtual connectedness becomes obsessive, it may in fact function to isolate individuals from real social interaction while also disrupting the patterns of rest, silence, and reflection that are necessary for healthy human development.”

House Church Central is an online resource for those who run and worship in house churches. It maintains a worldwide directory of house churches that can be searched by city, state and county. Contact Herb Drake.

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.