Roots + Wings —Sprouting Wings
By Rory Feek, Plain Values Five years ago this month, I stood on a stage in Los Angeles and received a Grammy Award, alone. It was a bittersweet moment to be given such a prestigious accolade for music and a…
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The Roundtable — Amish Insights on: Pride
By: Jerry D. Miller, Plain Values Our human tendency is to want to be independent. We do not want to rely on others, but the irony of it is, God created us to be dependent on each other when he…
The Jesus Revolution and Online Dissidents
by Pastor Andrew Isker Spiritual revival is huge news lately. What is happening at Asbury University has been in the news for weeks. Is it real? Is it fake? Is it woke? Is it sincere? It is all anyone wants…
Roots + Wings — Planting Roots
By Rory Feek, Plain Values January always feels like not only the beginning of a new year, but a new opportunity. To do things better, to be better. To do the thing you’ve always wanted to do. A chance for…
Light People, Old World Marriage and Love
By John Heers, of First Things Foundation Alert: This month’s post is not about love as understood by people living on this side of the Victorian age. This article won’t make fans of the movie Titanic particularly happy, and few…
What If We Would Build a Schoolhouse?
By Lisa Miller, Wife to Marlin, publisher of Plain Values Someone once told us, “If you are looking around hoping for someone to do something about something, maybe that person is you.” One size most certainly does not fit all…
Parallel Christian Society in 1000 BC
King David’s Israel as a Model For Life in 21st Century America by Pastor Andrew Isker David has been on the run from Saul, and now things are beginning to change. David has assembled a kingdom in exile that is…
The Roundtable — Amish Insights on: Pride
by Ivan Keim, Plain Values First, a note from Marlin Miller, Publisher of Plain Values Magazine: Across the news and nation, I have sensed a renewed drive to get communities together again, more like the “good ole days.” Now, I’m…
Lessons from Livestock, Part Two
To Be or not to Bug by David Treebeard Read Part OneRead Part Three When animals become numbers, human numbers are not far behind. For the past several hundred years since the imaginations of Descartes and other enlighteners permeated our…
The War Against Chaos
by J.Pilgrim I’m typing this out while I’m racked out in the back of my SUV in a Walmart parking lot in a college town, sipping a beer. I was attempting to spend New Year’s Day camping at the homestead,…
The Visual Examination
The Art and Science of Watching your Animals by A.L. Bork DVM The squeak of the grass, as it’s pinched between tooth and gum, harmonizes with the slow, baritone hoof beats of the flock advancing across the shadowy hillside. Each…
Lessons from Livestock, Part One
The Living Scripture of Creation by David Treebeard Read Part TwoRead Part Three Nature is under God’s control, and all the parts of nature are part of His symbolic language. This means that all of creation offers spiritual lessons. To…