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Phones, prayer and paying attention

What we have learned building an app that stands between people and their phones — and what actually works when the block fires.

• 4 min readWhy your Screen Time limits stopped workingScreen Time limits fail for one structural reason: the button that removes them costs nothing. Here is what that costs you, and what actually holds.
• 4 min readHow to stop scrolling at nightThe evening scroll is a habit with a trigger, not a character flaw. Here is the sequence that ends it, and the three mistakes that keep people stuck for months.
• 4 min readHow to choose a christian app blockerThe six questions that decide whether an app blocker survives past week two — how the block holds, what the unlock costs, and what happens on Android.
• 4 min readBible Shield vs OpalTwo app blockers built on different bets about why blocks fail. An honest comparison from the people who make one of them — including when to pick the other.
• 3 min readBible Shield vs one secone sec interrupts the reach for an app; Bible Shield ends the interruption in prayer. What each is actually for, from the people who make one of them.
• 5 min readHow to fast from social mediaA fast is not a deletion. Here is how to set the length, what to do with the hours it frees, and the four failure modes that end most of them early.
• 4 min readA dopamine detox, for ChristiansThe neuroscience behind the trend is mostly wrong, and the practice underneath it is ancient. What a week of it actually involves, and what fasting adds that a detox does not.
• 4 min readA quiet time that survives your phoneMost quiet times fail in the first ninety seconds of the day, before any decision is made. Here is a routine built around that, not against it.
• 4 min readHow to keep a digital sabbathOne day a week without the feed sounds simple and collapses fast. The four decisions that make it survivable, and why the day needs a plan of its own.
• 4 min readReading the Bible in a year, on your phoneMost yearly plans die in Leviticus, in February. Here is why the phone makes that both likelier and fixable, and how to pick a plan you will finish.
• 4 min readHow to memorise Bible versesA method that survives an ordinary week: fewer verses, spaced review, saying them out loud, and choosing passages by the moment you will need them rather than by fame.
• 4 min readBible verses for phone addictionTwelve verses that speak to the pull of the phone — attention, appetite, rest and the use of a life — with a short note on what each one is actually for.
• 4 min readPhone rules for Christian familiesThe rules children keep apply to the adults too, name places and times rather than hours, and were agreed rather than announced. What that looks like in practice.