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Visit the Calendar page for Purity events nation wide in 2009!
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Facebook and Infidelity
NEPTUNE, N.J. — A New Jersey pastor is telling his married church leaders to delete Facebook or resign.
The Rev. Cedric Miller says much of his recent marital counseling has included infidelity stemming from the social-network website.
The leader of Living Word Christian Fellowship Church in Neptune says Facebook is reigniting old passions. His plan was first reported by the Asbury Park Press.
Miller already had asked married couples among his 1,100 congregants to share their Facebook passwords with each other. He says the reaction to that request was mixed.
He says on Sunday that he will also "strongly suggest" that all married parishioners give up Facebook altogether.
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 "No Stones" Accounatability Book Club
Support groups for women struggling with sex or pornography addiction can be hard if not impossible to find in many cities. Crystal Renaud, of Dirty Girls Ministries, is preparing to offer online support for women so that women anywhere can get support.
 Join DGM Founder and Director Crystal Renaud along with DGM Intern Jenny Miller as we walk through the book, "No Stones: Women Redeemed from Sexual Addiction" by Marnie C. Ferree. This book is a great resource for any woman who finds herself in the throes of sexual addiction and the group will serve as a great introduction to accountability.
We will meet via Tokbox (web conferencing) beginning Thursday, October 14 at 9pm CST for 12 weeks.
Registration: www.dirtygirlsministries.com
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 New Name & Focus for National Coalition
The National Coalition for the Protection of Children and Families has changed their name to pureHOPE. This is part of a champaign to tighten their focus more sharply on prevention of and recovery from sexual brokeness. In our over-sexualized culture, this is a much needed emphasis. Visit their redesigned site at www.purehope.net.
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More Women Lured to Pornography Addiction
By Rachel B. Duke
The Washington Times
[P]sychologists and researchers have seen an increasing number of women becoming addicted to pornography on the Internet over the past 10 years. . .
 "Pornography is the drug of the millennium and more addictive than crack cocaine," said Donna Rice Hughes, president of Enough Is Enough, a Virginia-based nonprofit that works to make the Internet safer for children and families. "[EIE's] goal is that there be as much protection online as there is offline."
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 |  | Sy Rogers just did a major update of his website which now includes videos of his recent speaking. We wanted to use this news as an opportunity to highly recommend Sy as a speaker at any event your church or organization is having related to sexual/pornography addiction and recovery. Sy Rogers is unparalleled in his experience as a speaker in this area and offers insight and immediately useful tools to those who are fortunate enough to hear him. Learn more at www.syrogers.com | | | |
 Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computers, says his company will not be a party to the pornography industry and hopes that the iPad and iPhone revolution will help lead to a porn-free world.
Jobs reiterated his position in a heated e-mail exchange with Ryan Tate, a writer for Gawker.com, which follows news and gossip in Silicon Valley and elsewhere. Tate, who admitted that he was home alone and slightly inebriated at the time, took issue with a television ad calling the iPad a "revolution" and fired off an e-mail to Jobs.
"If Dylan [American songwriter Bob Dylan is one of Jobs' favorite musicians] was 20 today, how would he feel about your company? Would he think the iPad had the faintest thing to do with 'revolution?' Revolutions are about freedom," Tate wrote, not expecting a response from Jobs.
However, Jobs did respond to Tate, triggering an e-mail duel. "Yep, freedom from programs that steal your private data. Freedom from programs that trash your battery. Freedom from porn. Yep, freedom," responded Jobs. "The times they are a changin', and some traditional PC folks feel like their world is slipping away. It is."
However, Tate accused Jobs of "imposing" his "morality" by having Apple forbid pornographic applications for iPad. "I don't want 'freedom from porn.' Porn is just fine! And I think my wife would agree," fired back Tate - who later said he regretted mentioning his wife.
Jobs shot back, "You might care more about porn when you have kids."
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In 2008 a number of researchers from a number of scientific and legal fields completed separate research projects on the impact of pornography on society. Each researcher wrote a paper or book on their findings. These researchers gathered for a conference, organized by the Witherspoon Institute, in 2008. A series of videos was made of these reports and is now available through the Witherspoon Institute.
The book, "The Social Costs of Pornography" was released in March of 2010 compiling the results of all findings and resulting recommendations into a single report.
While the findings of this research is quite valuable, this was not a Christian research project. As a result, some of the resulting books and video reports contain very graphic descriptions of pornograhpy and are not recommended for reading or viewing by anyone who struggles with pornography. Two researchers in particular, however, do not mention anything graphic and have especially useful reports. Those are: - Roger Scruton - On the Abuse of Sex
- Jill Manning - The Effects of Pornography on Women
The videos are available online at www.socialcostsofpornography.org
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Want to keep your next business or family trip safe from pornography? CleanHotels.com is a national listing of hotels that do not offer in-room, "adult" (pornographic) pay-per-view movies.
Learn More.
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Freedom Begins Here is launching a 2010 college tour. There are no dates available, but you can learn more about the ministry at www.freedombeginshere.org.
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Over the past three years, Enough Is Enough has been developing, producing and piloting the Internet Safety 101SM  program, a multi-media teaching series that educates, equips and empowers parents, educators and other caring adults to protect children from online dangers.
Enough Is Enough will be hosting a press conference on February 17, 2010 in Washington D.C. and live on the Internet via Ustream. The event will feature Internet Safety 101SM experts, exclusive 101SM video excerpts, testimonials and our corporate sponsors.
Learn more at www.internetsafety101.org. |
 Online TV and movies have created a loophole in terms of filtering out objectionable content for kids. Shows like Nip/Tuck, CSI, and Sons of Anarchy are bringing increasingly graphic sexual and violent content to the web.
Safe Eyes 6 gives parents the ability to close this loophole by choosing what ratings are appropriate for their child. This feature works on Hulu.com, iTunes, and all major network sites like NBC.com. Safe Eyes 6 is currently the only product of its kind with this ability, representing another industry first.
Learn more at www.internetsafety.com. |
Volunteers Needed for Purity Study
Participants will receive Covenant Eyes services free.
Volunteers are needed for a scientific study that will help review the impact of using Covenant Eyes.
John Y. Lee, a doctoral student of clinical psychology at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, CA, is working with Covenant Eyes to conduct the study.
This is the first known scientific study on cyberporn treatment. The goal of this study is to test an innovative method of decreasing the use of Internet pornography called Motivational Interviewing. This technique will require each volunteer to complete several brief surveys within a four-week span.
For more information, visit www.CovenantEyes.com.
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 Men's Forum Re-launched
Higher-Calling, the men's forum on sexual addiction, has moved to www.purityreport.com. The forums are the same, but there is a new additional resource, the Purity Report, which is a tool to assist men with their accountability to other men. This is a great tool for church leaders to use to help men they may be mentoring in purity. It is also a great tool for men who are wanting to "graduate" after several years in a support group but still want a way to do meaningful accountability with one or more men.
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Two more organizations offer safety solutions for cell phones 
For Those Struggling with Purity
X3watch is an accountability software program helping with online integrity. Whenever you browse the Internet and access a site that may contain questionable material, the program will record the site name, time, and date the site was visited. A person of your choice (an accountability partner) will receive an email containing all possible questionable sites you may have visited within the month. This information is meant to encourage open and honest conversation between friends and help us all be more accountable.
Find out more at: www.xxxchurch.com.
For Parents
Net Nanny® Mobile
Net Nanny® Mobile provides parents unprecedented access to monitor and control their child's mobile-related activities, while also protecting the device against Loss, Theft, Spyware and Viruses.
Includes controls to help prevent: - Sexting
- CyberBullying
- Other inappropriate uses of cell phones
Find out more at www.netnanny.com.
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