Rest in Peace, Steve Jobs. From playing Number Munchers on my third grade classroom’s Apple computer, to filing stories and photographs from my iPhone yesterday, your products changed my life — and the world.

Jobs, 56, wasn’t much associated with faith – unless you count coverage of his company’s latest “Jesus Phone” – but obituaries are noting that he was a Buddhist convert, with roots in the Lutheran church. Incidentally, his biological father was Muslim, but they were estranged.) 

Here are some faith-related links:

And, of course the Westboro Baptist Church plans to protest at the funeral. Yawn. Then again, maybe that’s their interpretation of Jobs’ mantra: “Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”

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