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Porn RecoveryWhat the 300-Clergy Sex Abuse Report Means for Your Church
Most church leaders still say pornography is not a problem in their congregation. A grand jury report naming more than 300 accused clergy and over 1,000 child victims says otherwise, and no denomination has been spared. Here is what pornography has to do with it, and the discipleship a church needs before crisis arrives.
Porn RecoveryWhat Church Leaders Can Learn From the Bill Hybels Scandal
When a megachurch founder resigns under a cloud of misconduct allegations, the church's instinct is to shame the man and move on. That instinct is part of the problem. It teaches every struggling leader in the room that honesty ends a career, so they stay silent. Here is what churches should build instead.
Porn RecoveryWorld Health Organization Calls Sex Addiction a Disorder
The World Health Organization has added compulsive sexual behaviour to its international classification of diseases, so sex addiction is no longer something the wider world can wave off. The recognition confirms what families have known for years. The harder question is what the church does now that the diagnosis exists.
Porn RecoveryRecord Number of Americans Say Porn Is ‘Morally Acceptable’
Public opinion on pornography has moved faster than almost any other moral question, and the sharpest jumps came from young men and unmarried adults. The uncomfortable part is that the shift reaches inside the church too. But a culture changing its mind does not change what porn does to a brain, a marriage, or a calling.
Porn RecoveryWalmart Bans Cosmo from Checkout Lines
Cosmopolitan will no longer sit at eye level beside the sweets in Walmart checkout lines across the country. Behind that decision is a long campaign, a family magazine that lost its way after 1965, and a body of research on what constant sexualized media does to the girls standing in the queue.
Porn RecoveryFlorida Declares Porn A Public Health Risk
A ninth state has now put pornography in the same sentence as public health, calling for research, education and policy change to protect its citizens. Lawmakers are catching up to something men in recovery have known for years: this is not a character flaw, it is a battle for the brain.
Porn RecoveryHere’s How Watching Porn Can Affect Your Kids and Grandkids
What a man does in private does not stay in private. A CBN Showcase episode looks at how porn use reaches children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren long after a man is gone, and at the work of breaking that chain rather than handing it on. Millions of men in more than 100 countries have started that fight.
Porn RecoveryOn TRUNEWS: The Truth About Porn
Two conversations, one subject the church keeps avoiding. A TRUNEWS interview brought together the filmmaker behind the Conquer Series and a restored pastor whose marriage survived the fallout of porn, covering the statistics that started a movement and what healing actually looked like on the other side of exposure.
Porn RecoveryFacebook Explodes As Sex Abuse Victims Come Forward
In one week more than 24 million people posted about being abused, and the scale of it stunned a culture that should not have been surprised. We have let porn teach men what sex is and what other people are for. The research on what that does to a brain, and to the way men treat women, is not ambiguous.
Porn RecoveryKansas City Royals GM: Porn Is Bad for Baseball Players
A Major League general manager stood at a press conference and said something most locker rooms never hear out loud: if you want to win, stay away from porn. He described talking with his players about what it does to the mind, the distractions it creates, and where it leads. His aim was bigger than baseball.
Porn RecoveryShattered Christianity
He was involved in everything the church offered, and none of it touched what was happening privately. This is one man's account of the double life he carried for years, the night he told his wife of thirty years the truth, and what he and she found waiting when they went looking for help.
Porn RecoveryHere’s Why Father’s Day Is A Time To Heal
For a lot of men and women, Father's Day is not a celebration. It is a reminder of neglect, abandonment, or abuse at the hands of the man who was supposed to protect them. Those wounds do not stay in the past. They shape the brain, and often show up years later as a porn habit nobody can explain. Here is the way through.
Porn RecoveryFlorida Studio Wins Two International Christian Film Awards
Two films, two awards, one Florida studio. At the largest Christian film festival in the world, an eleven-minute short about a church that sang to drown out what it did not want to hear took Most Inspirational, and a three-minute trailer about men at war for their freedom took Best Trailer.
Porn RecoveryMan Dies Alone With Massive Porn Stash
The headline made it a punchline: a man crushed under his own porn collection. The truth was quieter and far worse. He died of a heart attack at fifty, surrounded by fantasy relationships with women he had never met, and not one real person noticed he was gone for a month. That is the trade porn offers every man.
Porn RecoveryGovernment Declares Porn A Public Health Crisis
State after state has now declared pornography a public health crisis, backed by brain research that startled even the people who commissioned it. Meanwhile only seven percent of pastors say they have anything to offer the men in their pews. Here is what the legislators saw, and what the church still has not.
Porn RecoveryWill Trump’s Pledge Stop the Proliferation of Porn?
A pledge was signed, and it was a real step in the right direction. But no policy has ever reached into a man's heart, and two out of three church-going men are still watching porn every week. Here is what law can do, what it cannot, and where the actual fight belongs.
ParentingShow a Holocaust Film This Sanctity of Human Life Sunday
Every January 22, churches mark Sanctity of Human Life Sunday. Thousands are being handed an eleven-minute short film set in Nazi Germany, built on the true account of a man who heard what was passing his church and sang louder to cover it. The film is free to download, and it puts one question to the church today.
Porn RecoveryChurch Enlists 10% Of Town To Battle Against Porn
In one prairie town, a single church put 1,350 men into the same fight at once, more than a tenth of the entire population. It did not start with a campaign. It started with one test group and a lead pastor willing to say the word out loud from the platform. Now the groups run five days a week, with a waiting list.
ParentingPowerful Film Sheds Light On Modern Day Holocaust
An elderly man remembered watching the horrors of the Holocaust unfold from the pews of his own church. That memory became an eleven-minute film, shot on location in Holland, now screened in Sunday services across the country. Its question is uncomfortable and impossible to set down: what are we singing over today?
MarriageFilm Crew embarks on Blind Descent Everest Reenactment
A film crew is flying forty miles into remote British Columbia with survival gear and one satellite phone, to reenact an improbable survival: a solo Everest summit, then a descent made completely snow blind. It is a mountain story, and it is being filmed for a series about marriage. Here is why those two belong together.
Porn RecoveryYou Wont Believe What These Men Have to Say
At the Set Free Summit, three men stepped in front of a camera and said out loud what most men spend years hiding. A group leader, a husband whose secret had just come out, a campus worker marked by the blacksmith scene. Different stories, one freedom. Here is what they wanted you to hear.
Porn RecoveryChurch’s Dirty Little Secret: Set Free Summit Statistics
The numbers that came out of the Set Free Summit were not the kind anyone wanted to read aloud. Church-going men, young adults, teenagers, women. And on the other side of the ledger, the overwhelming majority of churches with nothing in place to help. Here is what the research actually found.
Porn RecoveryThe Conquer Series Brings Its Porn Message to Broadcasters
A Vietnam-era military vehicle in a convention hall and a sign no one could walk past: the next generation is not watching Christian TV, they're watching porn. The Conquer Series team took that message to National Religious Broadcasters, and the numbers behind the headline were harder to argue with than the exhibit.
Porn RecoveryPastor’s Porn Use Exposed – How God Is Using Him Now
He was pastoring a church while nursing a porn addiction and outrunning an affair, and he never got to choose the moment of confession. He was exposed. What came after the worst day of his life was not the end of his ministry but the start of real healing, a rebuilt marriage, and a calling to walk with other couples.