Breaking Free

As I read through some of the comments in these blogs, it occurred to me that some readers might wonder (some might even be offended) about the perspective of faith in regards to the Covenant Eyes company.  So here’s a little info on that perspective.  To understand the perspective, I’ll need to talk a little of our mission, our company, and the presence of statements of faith on the website.

First, our mission is to change people’s lives by helping individuals, families, and ministries develop, demonstrate, and defend integrity through the use of Internet Accountability and Filtering software.  We want to accomplish this for peoples of all faiths, because we recognize that Internet pornography is devastating relationships of all kinds, regardless of faith.  It is our mission to provide tools to minimize this devastation.

Next, our company is, after all, a company.  It is true that we run it as a ministry, with the above mission.  However, we are incorporated under the laws of Michigan, and we have 40 employees.  As such, we cannot discriminate based on faith.  Nevertheless, because of our ministry nature, probably more than 3/4 of our members come from Christian contacts.  All of our employees understand that and are trained to be sensitive to these facts.

Finally, apart from the blogs, you will find little in the way of statements of faith on the Covenant Eyes website.  It is true that we have a quote from the Old Testament on our home page (Job 31:1, “I have made a covenant with my eyes”), but it is appropriate for what we are doing, regardless of faith perspective.  We have quite a few Jewish groups who use the program, so the Old Testament is pertinent for them.  But it is appropriate for anybody, regardless of faith, who wants to be free from the tempations of pornography on the Internet.

Our policy on the blog, however, is a little different.  As long as the author’s statements relate to the issue at hand, namely Internet use and Internet pornography, we allow our blogging employees to include statements of their own faith.  Don’t be surprised if there might even be a non-Christian blog at some point.

I would be interested to hear others’ comments on this approach?