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.

Read a June 24, 2010, Religion News Service article (on HuffingtonPost.com) about debates over how Muslims use Facebook.

An Aug. 27, 2010, Belief Blog post at CNN.com by religion scholar Stephen Prothero examines the practice of tweeting the Bible 140 characters at a time.

Steve Nolt is a history professor at Goshen College in Goshen, Ind., with formal training as a historian in the areas of U.S. immigration and ethnic history and American religious history. He also has significant personal and professional interest in Mennonite and Amish history and thought. An Anabaptist specialist, he has written extensively about Mennonites, Amish and […]

Read a July 1, 2010, article at FastCompany.com on research indicating that social networking releases chemicals in the brain that make us feel pleasure, almost like falling in love.