Christian Living The Roundtable | Amish Insights on: Big Families | Pt. 1 Guest Post, August 8, 2023October 23, 2023 Share this:By: Emily Hershberger, Plain Values This Month’s Question:Springtime is a busy time of the year for homesteaders. How do you keep such large families seemingly so organized during busy seasons? Answered by: Emily Hershberger Emily: “Out with the cold and in with the spring” is what comes to mind as… Continue Reading
Bold Christian Writing What’s a Human Right, Anyway? Guest Post, August 7, 2023August 7, 2023 Share this:Or more accurately, what is a human? by John Heers, First Things Foundation What is a human right? To answer this question I propose that we investigate first things first. What is a human? From the Isle of Mann in the sea between England and Ireland, sometime around the 7th… Continue Reading
Christian Living The Roundtable | Amish Insights on: Restoration | Pt 2 Guest Post, August 1, 2023October 23, 2023 Share this:By: Ivan Keim, Plain Values This Month’s Question: What does restoration look like in your community? Answered by: Ivan Keim, a minister in his local Amish church Continue Reading
Christian Artisty Simplifying — Roots + Wings Guest Post, August 1, 2023August 1, 2023 Share this:By Rory Feek, Plain Values On our recent trip to Amish country in Ohio to spend time with the team at the Plain Values office, Marlin put together a small gathering of folks from the community, and I sang a few songs and shared a few stories with them. But… Continue Reading
Homesteading Moving Animals Around Pt. 2 — Confessions of a Steward Guest Post, July 31, 2023 Share this:By Joel Salatin, Plain Values Last month I laid the foundation for the patterns and whys of animal movement. Failure to systematically and routinely move domestic livestock is perhaps the single biggest failure in animal agriculture. But how? Fortunately, we have infrastructure today that makes learning ancient herding techniques unnecessary…. Continue Reading
Homemaking Start-Up Farm — Confessions of a Steward Guest Post, July 27, 2023 Share this:By Joel Salatin, Plain Values The single biggest cost—and hurdle—in starting a farm of any size is the land cost. Our own nation has gone from free land to extremely expensive land. Old farmers today who acquired their land in the 1960s often have a hard time appreciating the land… Continue Reading
Homemaking First Foods — The Healing Land Guest Post, July 25, 2023July 25, 2023 Share this:By Shawn & Beth Dougherty, Plain Values The corn in the garden is already more than knee-high, and the first planting of green beans has been gracing the supper table for more than a week, so summer must really be here. And even with temperatures in the high eighties making… Continue Reading
Christian Artisty Staying Local — Roots + Wings Guest Post, July 18, 2023 Share this:By Rory Feek, Plain Values I once made a trip north to Amish country in Ohio to visit and spend time with Marlin and his team at the Plain Values home office. In the few days that I was there, I returned home with some unexpected personal insights that I… Continue Reading
Christian Living One Minute with Marlin — Fruit Guest Post, July 18, 2023July 18, 2023 Share this:By Marlin Miller, Publisher of Plain Values Have you ever tried to do something nice for someone only to make a mistake that messes up everything you had planned? Continue Reading
Bold Christian Writing Fight By Flight Guest Post, July 17, 2023 Share this:Why Leaving Godless Places Is Loving Godless Places by Joel Webbon My book, “Fight By Flight: Why Leaving Godless Places Is Loving Godless Places,” recently sparked quite the controversy online. Many have asked, “Why an entire book dedicated to the topic of whether or not Christians should leave blue states?… Continue Reading
Bold Christian Writing Normans in Paris Guest Post, July 13, 2023July 13, 2023 Share this:by Kilts Khalfan The internet is raging over France. Everybody has declared that it is a race war. This is it for the Frogs: the diversity immigrants have finally snapped; the incompatible Africans are finally being honest about their hatred of the White French and they’re burning down the country…. Continue Reading
Bold Christian Writing Race: Science or Fiction? Guest Post, July 11, 2023July 11, 2023 Share this:by John Heers, First Things Foundation I’ve just returned home from a trip to the Georgian Republic. I went there to visit one of our First Things Foundation field workers. His name is Oswald, a great guy. During my trip I was reminded by a Georgian friend that some of… Continue Reading