Homemaking From Rottleben to Lancaster County — The Stoltzfus Family Heritage Guest Post, May 31, 2023 Share this:by Nic Stoltzfus, Plain Values I first moved to Pennsylvania in the fall of 2018 to become caretaker of the Nicholas Stoltzfus Homestead in Reading. I was also nearing completion of a coffee-table book I was working on: German Lutherans to Pennsylvania Amish: The Stoltzfus Family Story. I was unsure… Continue Reading
Christian Artisty Flying High — Roots + Wings Guest Post, May 18, 2023 Share this:by Rory Feek, Plain Values April is my birthday month, which is always interesting for me. Each year, although I physically turn another year older, my mind never seems to age. The voice inside my head seems to stay forever young and stuck in another time, convinced that time stands… Continue Reading
Christian Artisty Roots + Wings —Sprouting Wings Richard Osgar, April 25, 2023May 15, 2023 Share this:by Rory Feek, Plain Values Here in the middle of Tennessee, the arrival of March signals the return of spring. The long-awaited blooming of yellow daffodils that encircle our family cemetery here on the farm lets us know that winter is wearing thin and that warmer weather will soon be… Continue Reading
Christian Living Light People, an Obelisk, and The GTI Guest Post, March 22, 2023 Share this:Why Light People Marriage Must End In Gay Marriage by John Heers, of First Things Foundation First, before we dig into some heavy things, did you know that there is something called the Gay Travel Index? Here’s what this index does: It ranks the world’s nations for friendliness toward gay people…. Continue Reading
Christian Living The Roundtable — Amish Insights on: Pride Guest Post, March 6, 2023 Share this: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 created a man and woman in the Garden of Eden…. Continue Reading
Christian Living Roots + Wings — Planting Roots Guest Post, February 20, 2023February 20, 2023 Share this: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 real and lasting change. The first few stories I’ll be… Continue Reading
Christian Living Light People, Old World Marriage and Love Guest Post, February 14, 2023February 15, 2023 Share this: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 will want to sketch out paunchy heart-shaped doodles as they… 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
Christian Living Putting Down Roots: The XXIst Century Revival of the Catholic Land Movement Guest Post, April 5, 2022January 23, 2023 Share this:by Maggie Zapp | Synergy Central FL Homestead When Fr. McNabb published The Catholic Land Movement pamphlet in 1932, I have no doubt he had some inkling that something wicked this way comes. The Luddite riots first established a formal resistance to the inevitable march of technological progress and in… Continue Reading