We have another software update today! Our programmers have released 4.2.8c, which shores up our filtering of the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) protocol. For those of you with our Internet Filtering service, you (or your filter guardian) simply must visit the protocol blocking page of our Member Center and set “Blocking IRC” to “Blocked.” This [...]
We met with Mark Hall of Casting Crowns and asked him if he thought Internet temptations were a serious problem among youth today. Here’s the video of Mark’s response (about 2 minutes long):
Thanks for your time, Mark.
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Covenant Eyes has changed the look of our billing and receipt notices. If you’ve been a Covenant Eyes member for some time, perhaps you’ve gotten use to the old format, but we think you’ll like the changes. Now our billing notices include:
The ability to print a receipt (an easily readable one)
The ability to tell at [...]
As I’ve mentioned in previous entries, it’s quite an awesome task trying to reduce a person’s entire Internet use over a week’s time down to one number between 0 and 5, but basically that’s what we try to do with our ‘Quick Look.’
The algorithm that accomplishes this takes into account the scores of sites you [...]
This is a guest post from Johnny LaLonde. Johnny is a Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern and Counseling Assistant at University Presbyterian Church in Orlando, Florida. Johnny is also the founder of theVERSOgroup, an online resource for those who are struggling with sexual addiction or those who have been effected by sexual addiction. TheVERSOgroup aims [...]
A Dallas-area pastor, Joe Barron, was arrested in an Internet sex sting this past weekend. Undercover officers posing as a 13 year-old girl had been communicating online with Barron for about two weeks. Their conversations had been sexual in nature. Barron suggested meeting the girl in person. He then drove nearly 200 miles on May [...]
Covenant Eyes accountability software is based an age-old philosophy of accountability. When we are willing to give a continuing account of our thoughts and actions to others, this heightens our attentiveness to obey God. When others receive a continual account of our thoughts and actions, it enables them feed valuable and timely wisdom into our [...]
I read a recent post by Dear Abby. A 16-year-old girl admits her addiction to porn and asks for Abby’s advice. I really appreciate the candid honesty of this girl, and the counsel Abby gives her. Abby writes, “the problem with pornography is the distorted vision it gives viewers of what sex is really about.”
I previously wrote a little about the influence that modern quantum theory has had on current worldviews. In particular, I believe it has had a much more profound effect than people realize, especially with regard to postmodernism. Postmodernism is generally characterized by narcissism and relativism - there is no absolute truth, and whatever I am [...]
“The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian” comes out this weekend in theaters.
It’s been nearly 60 years since the CS Lewis classic was published.
I thought it might be fitting, before I go see the film, to reflect on one of the rich ideas found in the tale of Caspian: the theme of faith.
Faith, to some, may [...]
