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Porn RecoveryFlorida 1st State To Teach K-12 Child Trafficking Prevention
Florida became the first state in the country to require human trafficking prevention instruction in every K-12 classroom, complete with published plans, named instructors and annual verification. Behind the policy sits a harder truth: as long as the demand for pornography holds, the trafficking that feeds it will not stop.
Porn RecoveryParents Beware: Porn Companies Are Targeting Video Gamers
Porn is no longer confined to videos and magazines. It has moved into online gaming and virtual reality, where one distributor's catalogue of games with nudity more than doubled in a single year and free-to-play versions slip past the paywalls meant to keep children out. Here is what is happening and what parents can do.
Porn RecoveryWhy 68% of Christian Men Watch Porn
Barna's national survey found 68% of Christian men and half of pastors viewing pornography regularly, with 11 to 17 year old boys its heaviest users. The number is not the shocking part. What the church usually does about it is.
Porn RecoveryVirtual Reality Porn: The Next Great Threat to the Church
Virtual reality did not arrive quietly. It arrived immersive, and the porn industry got there first. The technology is built to convince your brain you are genuinely present, which is exactly what makes it so hard to shake off. Most churches have no idea it exists. Here is what men are up against, and how they stand.
Porn Recovery15 Mind-Blowing Statistics About Porn And The Church
It is easy to look around on a Sunday, see the smiling faces, and assume the people in those pews are untouched by this. The research says otherwise. Christians, and pastors themselves, view porn at rates close to the culture around them, and almost no churches have a plan. Here is what the numbers show.
Porn RecoveryThis Is What Your Brain on Porn Looks Like
The brain of a porn addict looks closer to a drug addict's than most people expect. The prefrontal cortex - the part responsible for impulse control - atrophies, while the limbic system runs unchecked. Here is what is happening underneath, and why neurogenesis means it can be undone.
Porn RecoveryHow Sexual Sin Sears Your Conscience (VIDEO)
A decorated officer told the court he had been viewing porn for forty years, and that it had seared his conscience. Scripture uses that exact phrase. So does brain science, in its own language: a fear circuit stuck on, love circuits impaired, conviction fading to nothing. The hopeful part is that damaged pathways can be rebuilt.
Porn RecoveryWhy Is Sexual Sin Against Your Own Body?
Scripture said it first: every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but sexual sin is committed against the body itself. Science has now caught up and can describe the mechanism, from bonding hormones firing at the wrong target to a conscience that stops responding. What was rewired can be rewired again.
Porn RecoveryThis Is How Porn And Sex Trafficking Are Linked
Most people picture sex trafficking as something happening far away, to someone else, in another country. The United States leads the world in both producing and consuming pornography, and the two industries are tied together more tightly than most viewers have ever been told. Here is the connection, laid out plainly.
Porn RecoveryWhat The Porn Industry Doesn’t Want You To Find Out
The average adult now spends more than 20 hours a week with digital media, and porn sites have out-drawn the biggest names in streaming and ecommerce for the better part of a decade. That scale is not an accident, and neither is the silence around what the product actually does to you. Time to air it out.
Porn RecoveryFrom Porn Star to Pastor: How God Rewrote Joshua Broome's Story
Joshua Broome—a former porn star-turned-pastor, appeared in over 1000 adult films during his X-rated career. His life radically changed after finding Christ. Today, he’s a pastor on a mission to help people get free from pornography and attacks the very industry that ensnared him for years.
Porn RecoveryWhy Willpower Won't Help You Quit Porn
There is no on and off switch for porn. Resolutions fail, and each failure deepens the shame that drives the next relapse. The battle is not for your willpower - it is for your brain, and it is won by renewing the mind rather than gritting your teeth.
Porn RecoveryWho Owns the Worlds Most Popular Porn Website?
No one knows how many porn sites exist, but a handful of companies have quietly bought up most of them, and the men in the executive chairs stay out of sight. Here is what is known about the ownership behind the world's most visited porn website, the lawsuits closing in, and what it means for you.
Porn RecoveryMajor Porn Site Suffers Tremendous Blow
Years of child abuse and sex trafficking allegations finally cost the world's largest porn site its payment processors. Mastercard terminated card use within days, Visa suspended its privileges, Discover cut ties, and more than 75% of the site's content vanished. Here is how it unfolded.
Porn RecoveryThanksgiving: Gratitude In The Midst Of Chaos
Some years the table is smaller, the news is grim, and giving thanks feels like pretending. But the longer you stare at the problem the bigger it grows, and the stronger the pull to numb the ache. Gratitude is not a feeling you wait around for. It is a choice you make while the battle is still on.
Porn RecoveryWalt Disney World's New Park Map Features a Same-Sex Couple
Families save for years for the ultimate Disney vacation. But the guide map your child grabs at the gate now shows more than Mickey and Minnie. Here is what changed, how decades of cultural drift around sexuality got us here, and why the conversation about God's design has to start at home.
Porn Recovery109 Women and 45 Kids Rescued in Ohio Trafficking Operation
While the country argued about politics and a pandemic, one evil kept moving in the dark. Then one state said enough. Five counties, 154 people brought out, 179 men arrested. Here is how traffickers find the vulnerable, why the demand never let up, and what any of it has to do with you.
Porn RecoveryMajor Porn Site Fails To Protect Known Victims
She was fourteen when it happened, and months later her classmates found the footage online and started passing it around. Asking the site to take it down got her nowhere. This is the part of the industry nobody defending it wants to look at, and the reason the pull you feel toward porn is worth fighting.
Porn RecoveryIs the Church Ready For Revival
Something is stirring. People are walking away from the lives they have been living and turning back to God, sometimes on streets where they are shouted down for it. But a new believer's spirit is made new the moment he says yes. His wounds are not. If the prodigals came home this Sunday, could you hold them?
Porn RecoveryIs the Church Being Targeted By California And COVID-19?
Christian music flagged as harmful. A governor telling believers to stop singing. Indoor services shut down. One at a time it reads like pandemic policy; together, a pattern is hard to miss. Here is what has been quietly shaping the culture for decades, and the subject the church must stop avoiding to get its voice back.
Porn RecoveryU.S. Navy Bans Attendance At Indoor Church Services
A June 2020 order barred every sailor from indoor church services, non-essential shopping and the movies, while protests and house parties of any size carried no limit at all. Religious liberty attorneys called it unconstitutional. Here is what the order actually said, and how churches kept troops connected anyway.
Porn RecoveryChanging The Future Of Men's Small Groups
Most programs help a man manage the struggle. Very few go after what is underneath it. This is a look at how men's small groups are changing: roots instead of behavior modification, a daily check-in and a FASTER Scale that flags a relapse before it happens, and leaders who can finally see who needs a call this week.
Porn RecoveryThe Shocking Truth Of How Porn Fuels Racism
The sex industry has been selling racist stereotypes for profit since long before the current debates began, and the women and girls it exploits are rarely the ones anyone marches for. If the church means what it says about injustice, this is one arena it can no longer afford to look away from.
Porn RecoveryChild Sex Abuse Rises As COVID-19 Continues to Cause Concern
Lockdowns closed the schools and sent every child home. For some of them, home was the most dangerous place there was, and the teachers who would have noticed were gone. The reports that came in during those months are hard to read, and harder to ignore. Here is what happened, and what it asks of us.