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…
Category Parallel Economy
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…
Confessions of a Steward
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,…
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…
Giving Little Ones with Special Needs Room to Bloom
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…
Confessions of a Steward—Beginnings
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.…
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…
How Four Adoptions Led to a Magazine
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…
Lessons from Livestock, Part Three
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…