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PornographyPorn addiction isn’t just a guy thing
“… but you’re a girl!?” If I had a dollar for every time I heard that given the context that is about to follow, I’d…
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Recent ArticlesWhat I like about my dumbphone
I’ve been using the Light Phone III exclusively for almost a year now and wanted to share a few notes for anyone who might be…
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ContestsSign up for now RP’s July 13-22 screen-fast challenge!
Bring peace to your mind while raising $100 for charity. ***** Are you struggling with keeping screens in their proper place? Do you or your…
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Recent ArticlesOn being smartphone-free for five years
Way back in the Fall of 2021, I ditched my iPhone and got a dumbphone. I was sick of how my smartphone was a major…
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InternetIs AI helping you, or dumbing you down? Yes.
The Preacher declares in Ecclesiastes 1:9 that “there is nothing new under the sun.” He was saying it with a sense of despair, but there’s…
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InternetScreen-fast strictness – how tough is tough enough?
The screen-fast sign-up form had a space for “My listed exceptions” where people could list the important but limited screen-usage that their life and job…
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InternetScreen-fast 2025: Less screens = more life
We were hoping for 200 to sign up. Turns out a lot of us were ready for this – more than 900 registered for RP’s…
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ContestsRP’s 10-day screen-fast challenge is going nationwide July 21-30
If you want to register for the July 21-30 nationwide challenge click here. If you want to learn more about why you should consider it,…
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NewsAre you still able?
It used to be different, not all that long ago. Carrie is a teen who always had the kind of contagious smile that would get…
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InternetWe took the “No Screens Challenge”
Do you remember the last time you were without your phone for a day? Maybe you left it at your friend’s house, and couldn’t retrieve…
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InternetHow to stay sane in an overstimulated age
In today’s hyperconnected world, information comes at us fast and furious, from every direction, 24-7. We wake up to news alerts about a major earthquake…
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InternetHow to use AI like a Christian boss
Imagine you’re the boss of your own company. After months of searching, you’ve just landed the most brilliant assistant in the country. He’s lightning-fast, top…
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Adult non-fiction13 quick thoughts on “Screen-Smart Parenting”
Parenting is _________. You fill in the blank. It is so many things. It is an adventure with no shortage of ups and downs. I…
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PornographyHow to lock your phone from pornography… 101
“Always lock the doors.” As a boy, this teaching served me well. We lived in a place with frequent break-ins, so the danger was real…
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InternetWill AI replace reading?
Many new technologies are sold with the promise of freeing people from menial tasks. Dishwashers, dryers, tractors, and word processors are just a few of…
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Adult non-fictionDigital Liturgies
Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age (with study questions) by Samuel D. James 2023 / 184 pages As I read Digital Liturgies, I kept…
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PornographyA church response is needed to stop the porn crisis
Over the past several years, I have spoken in dozens of Christian communities to thousands of students and parents on the issue of digital porn…
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NewsFree video series to protect families from porn
Parents who want to keep pornography away from their family received a gift early this year. John-Michael Bout and Jacob Valk have produced two new…
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InternetStop swiping, start serving
I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that in the past few weeks, you have probably not gotten rip-roaring drunk nor participated…
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NewsThe most popular girlfriends are AI
Satan’s efforts to corrupt God’s design for marriage and sex has evolved yet again, spurred on by the advance of Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI technology…
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Internet…the Internet can pervert anything
**** Warning: the following addresses pornography and sexual content Born in 1998, I grew up in the generation when the iPod Touch and cellphones were…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Aug 5, 2023
Unintended consequences In socialist states like the USSR, the government’s central planning failed because people are complicated and to correctly predict their wants, needs, and…
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InternetGoogle or God? Who are we turning to for guidance?
This article is being shared, with permission, from Clarion, “a biweekly magazine aimed at servicing families and congregations in the federation of Canadian Reformed Churches.” You…
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NewsSaturday Selections – October 1, 2022
Loud for the unborn (3 min) On Sept 3, in New York, abortion defenders showed up at a pro-life protest. And this gentleman saw it…
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InternetWe can’t save the world, and that’s OK
We are weary. Gloom and malaise are the shadows of the moment, inescapable beneath the blazing ball of stressors that blinds our eyes to what…
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InternetThe smartphone stack
You’re out with some friends having a nice dinner. But one has been talking on his phone for the last ten minutes, and a second…
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InternetParents, you are your child’s best protection from online horrors
“You cannot raise your children as your parents raised you, because your parents raised you for a world that no longer exists.” – Author unknown…
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InternetCensorship isn’t Christians’ biggest social media problem
Not so long ago, I was having a conversation with someone about why I write so much about Christians’ concerning relationship with the social internet….
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DatingOnline dating as seen from the other side
Editor’s note: In “The pros and cons of online dating” Peter Riemersma shared how he met his wife via a Reformed singles site. In this…
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DatingThe pros and cons of online dating
I first wrote on online dating more than a dozen years ago, back when the Internet was still young, and people still called it the…