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Here are a few secular sites that provide great help for doing research:

bulletbritannica.com for the Encyclopedia Britannica
bulletand amazon.com for suggestions and reader reviews of books on various topics.

If you go to britannica.com, you'll find not only their entire encyclopedia, but also links to other websites about your topic containing historical articles or recent news. 

Take a look now at the britannica.com home page and do a search on a topic that interests you.  Click several of the links they suggest to see the wealth of information they provide.  Try a search for "dead sea scrolls" and you'll see not only Britannica articles, but links to other websites with information about the scrolls.

Amazon.com is an online bookstore, one of the largest, if not the largest, on the Internet.  But it's more than just a bookstore, because it also give you several advantages over traditional bookstores.  

For instance, when you search for a book or topic on amazon.com, they recommends other books on the topic people have purchased at the same time they purchased the book you're considering buying.  You can also read reader's comments on the books to find out whether the books were helpful or not to those who read them.  

Take a look at amazon.com and search for a book I've often recommended for Christians struggling with homosexuality called Coming Out of Homosexuality.  When you find it, you'll see several other books that people have bought when they bought that book, plus comments from those who have read the books.  Then join me back here.

For specifically Christian books, I recommend people buy from christianbook.com, the website of Christian Book Distributors (CBD).  They have similar features as amazon.com, and good prices.

We're now done with Section 2, and I'll conclude with a few brief comments in Section 3 about ways a Christian can keep up-to-date with what's new on the Internet.

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