Blog – Page 15 – Silouan Green

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Selling our girls, you know it’s true

Sex is a good thing. My wife and I have eight children, we know that very well! But sex is not love, and sex is not beauty, and that is what is being sold to our girls, and boys. We are all complicit.

I was speaking to a group this…

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The power of words

I was reminded yesterday about the power of words. Meeting with a couple of people who have been helped by and seen the The Ladder UPP change lives, one of them recounted words from family members that had haunted her…

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Thomas Merton – Finding the Glory of God In US

Life gets very complicated. Work, kids, school, weather, bills, etc. you name it. They all can suck the fun out of life. If you let them.

This past weekend I had…

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Live Simply and Overcome The Opium Of Modern Life

Never before have so many people been consumed by so much “stuff”. Computers, iPhones, Xbox, internet everywhere, chain store everything, fast food, boob jobs and Wal-Mart, you name it. It makes it hard to live simply,…

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Psalm 1:1-3 – It Is Okay To Be Mad At God

Old school with King David every Sunday. He cries, he rejoices, he tells God he is pissed off. The Psalms are as human as it gets. You aren’t the first to be mad at…

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Looking for Joy – A boy and his dog

Every morning about 6am our youngest child, Gabriel, pitter-patters his two year old feet down the stairs from his bedroom to tell stories to our dog, Leanna. Every morning.

He will march to the corner of the living room where Leanna is asleep in…