Why Accountability? - Part 1

Recently, I explained the idea behind Covenant Eyes accountability software. The response I received was “That’s creepy.”
This is a typical response. The idea of a detailed Internet-usage report being sent to designated accountability partners sounds like a subplot from 1984. Big Brother is watching you.
What benefit does accountability of this type have? Why would [...]

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How Suggestions Are Handled

We get a lot of suggestions here at Covenant Eyes. We try to answer every email we get with a personal reply, including suggestions. So for those who have submitted suggestions, I thought you might be interested to hear how they are handled.

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Covenant Eyes for Windows 4.2.7 released!

Well, the crazy men in their lab coats in the back room of our offices have done it again. After much smoke, explosions, and general riffraff from the back room, Covenant Eyes 4.2.7 was released, fully forged, onto the denizens of earth.
Sorry, I happen to love Tolkien…
Here are some of the updates to 4.2.7!

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A Survey on Accountability

I had the opportunity to take a survey of a select group a few months ago, and I think the results are interesting.
The group consisted of over 2000 staff members of an established worldwide evangelical ministry. I was able to get enough of the attendees to fill out the survey (nearly 10%) that the [...]

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Luke’s getting married in the evening… Ding Dong the wedding bells are going to chime…

Luke, our resident blogger/community manager, is getting married tomorrow! We at Covenant Eyes would like to take this opportunity to publicly congratulate him, and wish him well on the next chapter of his life! I’m sure he’d appreciate your prayers and encouragements as well!

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Lust - So What?

In a recent blog I wrote about the big “so what” of lust—in the light of so many problems in the world, so many injustices, why the sexual mores of “old time religion”?
I was pleased, after writing this blog, to find a sermon by John Piper which mentioned this very issue. Here’s the transcript from [...]

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Building Integrity in Relationships - Lesson 4

In the concluding episode of Jim Rose’s Tour De Force series Building Integrity in Relationships, Jim tackles the question of Moral Excellence, what it is, what it isn’t, and explains how Accountability Relationships are crucial for building and maintaining moral excellence in the Christian Life.

Of course we have included a larger version in our Help [...]

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The Perfect Sin

As my personal burden for the issue of Internet pornography has grown, I have seen in the testimonials of our members how pornography has broken relationships.

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Does CE Work in Community?

My regards to Boaz, author of Not the Southern Cross, for his comments about Moore Theological College and Covenant Eyes. (For new readers, read here about Moore’s new initiative to encourage the use of Covenant Eyes at their school.)

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I am Ron

I am the founder and President of Covenant Eyes. Mostly I’m a geologist with a propensity for starting businesses. But in 2000, I had two teen-aged sons on the Internet, and realized the need for accountability. So a young man and I started a business, an industry really.
In 1992 (August 21, 9:50AM), [...]

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