Accountability Software Vs. Spyware - What is the difference?

As I go about my daily business, one of the most common questions I get asked is “So, where do you work?” My response is generally something along the lines of “Well, I work at Covenant Eyes, a local software company, as their web developer.” This gets smiles, nods, glazed eyes, and invariably, the follow [...]

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National Day of Prayer . . . For Porn

Tomorrow is the National Day of Prayer in the US. This yearly event has been going on since 1952 when, after a joint resolution by Congress, signed by President Truman, the U.S. government declared an annual, national day of prayer. In 1988, the law was amended and signed by President Reagan, permanently setting the day [...]

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New Staff in the Scoring Department

Covenant Eyes has recently more than doubled the staff responsible for the scoring system which provides a score for each of the URL’s visited by members. Plus, our programming staff has provided some incredible database analysis tools that will greatly improve scoring analysis.
The main complaint we get is that reports show false positives. [...]

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Just How Big is the Porn Business?

Finding reliable statistics about the production and consumption of pornography is difficult to do. A cursory glance around the World Wide Web yields different results. Just how many billions of dollars does the adult film industry make?
To be sure, there are the “accepted” statistics that get passed around from Web page to Web page, but [...]

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Ex-Porn Star Speaks Out

Shelley Lubben, formerly known as “Roxy” in the adult film industry, shares her story about being involved in porn and how God brought her out (about 7 minutes long).

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Toll Free Hotline for Questions about Online Safety

Are you a parent with questions and concerns about Internet safety?
Parents in the US have a toll-free number to call with questions about topics about the virtual world, such as social networking, chat, IM, blogging, cellphone texting, etc. This is a bilingual hotline—English and Spanish—and is sponsored by the Qwest Foundation and operated by the [...]

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Casting Crowns Takes Home Many Dove Awards

Congrats to Casting Crowns and Mark Hall for their many nominations and the trophies they took home last night at the 39th annual Dove Awards.
Hall was the night’s leading nominee with six.
And here’s a list of the awards they won last night:
SONG OF THE YEAR - “East to West” (Mark Hall & Bernie Herms, songwriters)
POP/CONTEMPORARY [...]

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Our Top 10 Blog Posts

Breaking Free has recently published its 100th post.
Sometimes blogs will create a list of some of their most read blog posts. In celebration of this milestone, I wanted to put together a “Top 10″ list from our blog.

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Podcast: “Sexual Sin” by Mark Driscoll

This is a recent sermon on sexual sin from Mark Driscoll, preaching pastor at Mars Hill church in Seattle.  Driscoll is the founder of Resurgence, a movement among thriving churches that challenges “multiple generations to live for Jesus so that they can effectively reach their cities with the gospel by staying culturally accessible and Biblically [...]

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Grammy and Dove Award Winning Band Talks about Deep Struggle with Pornography

Watch this video testimony from Joey Kibble of the Grammy and Dove Award-winning group, Take 6.  Joey candidly talks about his struggle with pornography.

“But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you” (1 Peter 5:10, [...]

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