By Luke Gilkerson A little over a week ago Covenant Eyes was invited to be a part of the Convergence Summit outside Baltimore, Maryland, which united hundreds of leaders from around the country to talk about the rapid sexualization of our culture. Many speakers took to the stage to…
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Effects of Porn: What Watching Porn Does to You and Those Around You
What are the effects of watching porn? Are there any? Some have argued it’s a safe way to enjoy guilt-free sex without harmful effects. One author at New York Times expressed this viewpoint: “[P]ornography can certainly have benefits. Counselors sometimes suggest it to help people become comfortable with a particular…
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Stop Looking At Porn You Sicko! (Part 2)
In part one of “Stop Looking at Porn You Sicko!” I explained how my approach to battling against consuming pornography for years was to simply try harder to quit. I think many addicts adopt this approach. And yet, in spite of an above average amount of willpower and effort, I…
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3 Keys To Making Accountability Work
Covenant Eyes serves many churches, missionary organizations, and other groups, and using accountability software on all devices can be very beneficial—but only when individuals are encouraged to have safe and personal friends or mentors receive their Covenant Eyes activity feed. Accountability gets a bad rap. The term is commonly used…
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Is Porn Bad?: 10 Things to Consider Before Watching
How bad can it be—everyone watches porn, right? It’s your own choice whether you want to or not, it doesn’t hurt anyone else. If you don’t like porn, just don’t watch it. These are common ideas today. But scientific research has found just the opposite. It tells us exactly why…
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Why Can’t I Stop Watching Porn? 3 Reasons It’s Hard to Quit
I can’t stop watching porn. No really, I want to. I have made promises and tried fresh starts in the New Year. I have even gone forward in church, gotten down on my knees, and begged God to help me stop watching it. But I can’t quit porn! What is the…
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What Is Considered Porn?
Covenant Eyes exists to help people overcome pornography—but what do we mean by “pornography”? Judge Potter Stewart, in Jacobellis v. Ohio, famously wrote that while he couldn’t give an intelligible definition of pornography, “I know it when I see it.” Most people know what they mean when they use the…
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How does the Covenant Eyes app work on an iPhone®?
Website Filtering & Blocking The filter is an optional service that runs in the background of your iPhone®/iPad® and blocks explicit websites across all browsers (Google Chrome, Safari®, etc.) and apps on your device. There are two Blocking Levels: Standard (default) and Strong. Each level has a Custom Website List,…
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Why can’t I stream or cast on an iPhone® with Covenant Eyes?
To protect copyrighted material, some streaming apps may produce black screenshots on your email report in the Victory app Activity Feed. Some streaming apps (like Spectrum TV) have built-in safety features to protect copyrighted material from pirating. Their safety features may conflict with Covenant Eyes on iPhones/iPads. Casting or Streaming…
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Your Church Is Looking at Porn
The world is a blurry place. I feel like the lines between right and wrong, dark and light, good and bad, used to be more obvious. Words like “Christian,” “porn,” and “addiction” would not have been used in the same sentence just a few decades ago. But, in this post,…