Christian Artisty Roots + Wings —Sprouting Wings Guest Post, March 21, 2023April 20, 2023 Share this: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 career that almost didn’t happen. Knowing what that moment meant,… 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
Parallel Economy Confessions of a Steward Guest Post, February 27, 2023February 27, 2023 Share this:The Creator’s Pattern By Joel Salatin, Plain Values In 1961 as our family looked out over this newly-acquired farm property with its rocks, gullies, and weeds, we needed a roadmap to healing. In our imagination, we could see fertile fields, filled-in gullies, and soil-covered rocks, but how to get there… 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
Christian Living What If We Would Build a Schoolhouse? Guest Post, February 13, 2023February 15, 2023 Share this: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 for our family in many regards, so when it comes… 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
Bold Christian Writing Parallel Christian Society in 1000 BC Andrew Isker, February 2, 2023March 9, 2023 Share this: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 growing more powerful, and Saul is waging war not only… Continue Reading
Christian Living The Roundtable — Amish Insights on: Pride Guest Post, January 31, 2023March 6, 2023 Share this: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 not a fan of wishing to go back, but the… 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
Bold Christian Writing Lessons from Livestock, Part Three Guest Post, January 21, 2023January 23, 2023 Share this:When the Lion Lies Down with the Bug by David Treebeard Read Part OneRead Part Two The other day I was hauling a couple of cows to the slaughterhouse when a new-model truck with blacked-out windows blazed past me on the left. Big block letters on the rear window read:… Continue Reading