Archives for the 'Mobile Pornography' Category
Tips for Parents Buying Cell Phones for Kids
Friday, July 31st, 2009
Tips for Parents Buying Cell Phones for their Kids from the safety booklet published by the Religious Alliance Against Pornography that the Archdiocese contributed to: 1) Circumvent access to pornography at the cell phone store: You must be 18 years or older to purchase a cell phone. Make sure that if you purchase a cell phone for [...]
Tackling Calvin Klein
Monday, July 6th, 2009
On Thursday, July 9, the Religious Alliance Againt Pornography will be having an emergency comference call to discuss the controversial Calvin Klein advertisement in NYC. This advertisement (warning explicit) was so provocative that it caused a stir, controversy, and had to be taken down. True to form, RAAP was ready with a strong letter to [...]
Porn infiltrates Twitter
Monday, July 6th, 2009
This weekend I posted several tweets on my Twitter feedabout the unreal amount of “followers” that were nothing but account fronts for porn. Well, today USA Today is running a story on this problem (USA Today article). From what I have read in the Twitter forums, several users have complained about this issue but unless [...]
Seminar on Addiction at St. Vladimir’s Seminary
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
I had a wonderful visit at St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary (www.svots.edu) this past Friday. The school was kind enough to invite me to speak on a day-long series on addictions. During the morning session, some frightening statistics about clergy training and substance abuse were disseminated. The statistics showed that overall, only about 12.5 percent [...]
Anti-Pornography Presentations
Monday, November 26th, 2007
Since 2005, I have had the privilege of representing the Greek Orthodox archdiocese on the executive committee on the Religious Alliance Against Pornography. Since the 2006 Clergy-Laity, we have been performing educational seminars across the United States on the topic of mobile pornography. Many have asked that I record this presentation so that it can [...]
Some resources
Sunday, May 6th, 2007
To all my friends at the Metropolis of Denver, it was a joy and pleasure to be with you all at your Clergy-Laity. As promised, here are PDF’s of the three handouts: Child safety on the Internet, teen safety on the Internet, and a resource guide to iPods and mobile pornography. Child Safety – Legal [...]
When your child wants a cell phone
Thursday, March 29th, 2007
According to the Yankee Group, the number of 8-year-olds with phones is now estimated at 506,000. The number of 9 year olds with phones jumps to 1.25 million. To put things in perspective, the number of 8-year-olds with phones has doubled in just four years. The New York Times published an article entitled, “Child wants [...]
Survey finds teens increasingly exposed to online pornography
Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
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Parental Controls for iPods
Sunday, July 30th, 2006
I had an interesting conversation with the parents of a two-year old a few nights ago and we were discussing the recent Clergy-Laity sessions on mobile pornography. The mother was shocked that an iPod was so versatile as to be able to hold not only music, photos, videos, and tv shows! Her comment, “I thought [...]
Cell Phones and Mobile Pornography Featured on TV
Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
Indeed, it has been an encouraging and refreshing experience to see our hierarchs in the Church willing and anxious to take a lead roll in the technology age.