Christian Living The Healing Land — Community Inter-Dependence Day Guest Post, October 11, 2023October 23, 2023 Share this:by Shawn and Beth Dougherty, Plain Values July Fourth is an important day in our village. We always say Hinton has the best fireworks display in the valley, and people come from all over to watch. The park is full of strangers as well as neighbors, and the lines in front… Continue Reading
Bold Christian Writing An Excerpt From Chapter 1 Of The Boniface Option: Disenchantment with the Modern World Andrew Isker, August 23, 2023August 23, 2023 Share this:In a world where the lines between reality and manipulation are becoming increasingly blurred, it’s essential to seek out the truth and understand the forces at play that shape our lives. Enter “The Boniface Option,” a groundbreaking book written by Andrew Isker and published by Gab Press that promises to… Continue Reading
Christian Living The Roundtable | Amish Insights on: Restoration | Pt 1 Guest Post, June 21, 2023July 24, 2023 Share this:By: Jerry D, Plain Values This Month’s Question: What does restoration look like in your community? Answered by: Jerry D Miller, a minister in his local Amish church Continue Reading
Go And Build Giving Little Ones with Special Needs Room to Bloom Guest Post, February 9, 2023February 9, 2023 Share this:By Marlin Miller, Publisher of Plain Values I began our first post with this question and a statement. “What do the Amish, little ones with special needs, two nonprofits, four adoptions, two one-room schoolhouses from the 1800’s and a monthly print magazine have to do with homesteading in 2023? It… Continue Reading
Go And Build Confessions of a Steward—Beginnings Guest Post, February 6, 2023 Share this:By Joel Salatin, Plain Values Does God Care How I Farm? That question defines my life’s work and vision because it moves the visceral, practical decisions I make in my farming vocation to a place of sacredness and godly living. If God cares about physical and practical things in my… Continue Reading
Go And Build How Four Adoptions Led to a Magazine Guest Post, January 24, 2023 Share this:by Marlin, Plain Values What do the Amish, little ones with special needs, two nonprofits, four adoptions, two one-room schoolhouses from the 1800s, and a monthly print magazine have to do with homesteading in 2023? It is the story of our family, and it is a joy to share how… Continue Reading
Christian Living Lessons from Livestock, Part Two Guest Post, January 17, 2023January 25, 2023 Share this: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 power structures, people have been treated as machines or numbers… Continue Reading
Christian Living The War Against Chaos Guest Post, January 13, 2023January 23, 2023 Share this: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, but my fan belt frayed out on the drive and… Continue Reading
Go And Build Do Your Part Guest Post, January 10, 2023 Share this:Become an Active Citizen of the Parallel Economy in 2023! by The Parallel Economist Commit to becoming an active citizen of the Parallel Economy this year! Gab’s progress in creating the Parallel Economy’s web infrastructure has been both extraordinary and inspiring. Andrew Torba’s leadership has been unparalleled, but the Parallel… Continue Reading
Christian Living Lessons from Livestock, Part One Guest Post, January 6, 2023January 25, 2023 Share this: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 farm, log, or fish is to interact with an animated… Continue Reading
Bold Christian Writing Building a Brighter Future Guest Post, November 21, 2022 Share this:All the darkness of the world cannot put out the light of a single candle by D.L. Marshall With the current global situation, together we can, and will build a brighter future. In other to give meaningful suggestions for this, we first need to speak candidly about what’s happening in… Continue Reading
Go And Build The Path Forward: Build and Balkanize Andrew Torba, November 10, 2022November 12, 2022 Share this:In light of the clown show that was the election on Tuesday I wanted to share some of my thoughts on what I see as the path forward from here. I made a post on Gab yesterday that got tens of thousands of engagements both on and off Gab. I… Continue Reading